Should I read this piece of written word at my school's anti-violence rally, or write a differe
2008-3-1 21:21:55 by Skinskin
Do you belong to a landmass or do you belong to humanity?
Do you belong to a religion or do you belong to faith?
Does your name belong to the handmade sign that the boy across the street drew for you that now hangs on your bedroom door, your favorite pair of sneakers that have a little hole fondly spurting out of the toe, that give away your identity when you're in the bathroom stall at school and someone peeks under the door to see if it's occupied, or does your name belong to their typewriter and the lines it punches out, the fingertips of tall men in fallible suits who take your name and destroy it into neat block letters, last name first, first name erased - when your name belongs to them.
Do you belong to white skin because it belongs to you? Will you follow their orders because they wear name tags with words that the dictionary writer decided had more important things to do than your own? What is the difference, Jesus Christ, tell me, Allah, Mother, Father, Oversoul, whoever your maker is, just tell me because I don't understand, what is the difference? If we are all dead, nobody is right. If we coagulate we clot. The clots of continents and petty boarders seize and thrash. We run like virus and blood cell into each other, and then the blood simply runs. The names blacken and smother each other, brother against brother, (would any leader want this for his or her people?) until everyone's tired and bloody and stepping over bodies. The masses shrink back into their shadows and the battlefield is only stained a little bit because the sun evaporates all blood at the same rate. Once you are dead you are gone. There is no beauty in war.