The inspiration for this poem is from all the injustice and division we have in our nation. We are one nation living among other nations in the same world. I feel that world peace is something unfathomable when we cannot ever find peace within our own nation first. We have the potential to bring each other together. We have the potential to put away our differences. We have the potential to be more. This is just my poem. My call. My plead for unity among us.
we are steadfastly
set upon disunity.
we are one nation,
indivisible
until it is a matter
of the color of our skin,
the people we love,
or the rights we fight for.
a testament to disunity
is born through us.
we are different pieces
to different puzzles,
set upon fitting into
all the wrong slots.
we are anything
but one nation,
indivisible.
we insist on change
only where we,
individually,
see fit.
but what we often forget
is that we are
a phoenix.
and my brothers and sisters,
it’s time to rise up
from the ashes.
in unity.
