Discrimination

Part I

Still today within the modern world

The blows and insults that the racists hurl

Is an enigma and disgrace

That pitches one race against another race.

Men with hate and bigotry filled

Have lynched, enslaved and in their hatred kill

And hurt and harm and make a huge divide

Behind which the bigots and evil folks hide.

When shall the bigots give the world love as a gift

And end this great long-standing racial rift

That multitudes of men have died to fix

To make the races come together and mix.

Part II

In rigid social structures men call class

Or indo-originated social caste

Some men through their own compounded measures

Have ranked and placed their fellowmen with pleasure.

The social expectation and life chance

For some are by these acts enhanced

And yet so many others find it hard to cope

As they embrace a colossal tide of faded hope.

Will now the keepers of the system pause

To see the pain and sufferings that those groupings cause

And in their place create a world of brotherhood

Where men are never measured by their goods?

Part III

They say the rules between the genders are unfair

And the upper hand given to males is clear

And in this age of intense feminism

Women fight to end the so called sexist schism.

Far from the time when women could not go out

When society would not accept the voices of their votes

Women have grown mighty in the their words and deeds

And in many places now begin to lead.

“Equality!” the feminist mantra and her cry

Can no longer now be silenced or its echoes die

But still they say it is men who lead the world

And protect their place like valued bits of pearls.

Part IV

Oh think of well fit able bodied men

Whose thoughts from hate and bigotry stem

With hearts as lead and hands as sledge

With hardness pound the impaired and the challenged.

Deep in ignorance, they fail to know

That this vast world has much to show

That men and women classed as handicaps

Have outdone them by a million laps.

The contribution of the challenged and the impaired

Is very certain, undimmed and clear

In so many fields of human endeavour

They have proved themselves as being very clever.

Part V

Despise them not because of age

The old white headed cranky sage

And they though stooping low and bowed

Have much to tell of when and where and how.

Despise them not because of youthful pride

The men whose gaze is set upon the sunset side

Now show them love and peace and care

That you would love to know if time should get you there.

Though now you’re blessed with strength of greatest magnitude

Dispense not of it, friend, in manner rude

And neither should the old in their declining state

Degrade the youth and manifest to them great hate.

Part VI

Oh think of Hitler in his awful rage

Who used nationalism to paint an ugly page

The weird atrocities displayed on Europe’s soil

The Nazis’ camps that killed and tortured and destroyed men by toil.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, in Europe’s east

The hateful Serbs used ethnic cleansing to impeach

And banish millions of Croats from out their native land

And killed the so-called belligerent on whom they could lay hands.

The political wars between the east and west

That put the world in its greatest time of stress

Political foes point nuclear weapons at each other

When hate between the left and right divide e’en brothers.

Part VII

And now my friend, oh, how I wish

That I could make a true exhausted list

Of discrimination in its many and varied forms

And tell you of their vanities and harms.

Now with your glorious intellectual might

On what remains now shed some brighter light

That men may see and hear and know

That discrimination is a vice that fosters strife and woe.