I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

~ Douglas Adams

And so, here I am.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Stand

A line formed to one side and the world stood beside it
judging those who chose one side or the other
for nothing more than that choice.
Most found themselves by birth where they stood
and yet it was found that they too deserved to be judged.
They were bullied, beaten, raped, tortured and destroyed.
The victors were stronger or more driven by hate,
rarely in any way superior that mattered.
In that moment where one was not in focus
stand silent and inhuman before inhumanity.
And this was what mankind was about
deciding the greater and the lesser
and keeping the lesser in its place
for no more reason than it made the lesser feel greater.
How will we judge ourselves
when there is no one left?
 

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