We Are Water

I’m more than a first or second look,

Don’t say you mistook,

Me for a billboard,

I know you expect discord

From me, but the definition

Of determination,

Is never to back down or bow

To the profanity of how

Your voice is loud and slurs

That’s how i know you’re absurd,

Because even a whisper is heard

Violent shrills are associated with hysteria

So how about you say it again now huh?

 

The cowardice of your lies, they shield

Your mind from truth and blur your field

Of vision, you only hear what is loud

But the softness of truth is a shroud

To the lies you suck and devour

How does it feel when others empower

On the weaknesses you try to hide?

You say I’m wrong, but you confide

In sins and atrocity, daily,

 

These words are not mine alone,

They are the countless echoes

Of those who have cracked

And they heal, heart intact,

All those who have been victim

To the names, the rhythm

Of abuse,

Whether it was your tattoos,

Your piercings, your hair colour

Your head covering, your stutter,

Your face, your voice, your skin

They never look at their sin,

The way they lap up the blood

Of the innocent and consume the flood

Of money, trauma, tears and souls

 

You think you hate,

What you love to discriminate,

You never truly investigate,

You can’t know me by a glance,

Instead you take a stance,

And right in that instant,

You call me an immigrant,

I’m a proud born Canadian,

You tell me i’m responsible

For what? The murder,

That i never committed,

What of the people overseas, slaughtered,

Oil, money, greed, lust courses your veins

Your humanity has faded away in vain,

You cover your eyes as children and mothers

They scream and die, and you blame only me?

You blame me, when i have all reason to blame you,

 

I could blame you for the murder of those i love,

I could blame you for the oppression of those

Seven seas away from me and you, i can blame

You for those imprisoned in their own homes, the pain

They had to suffer as tanks, soldiers and drones

Scatter the earth and skies like broken stars, tainted rivers

And toxic balloons of apathy and vulgarity

I can, i could blame you,

But, i won’t

 

You, nor I are the ones who use religion or beliefs

To kill, imprison, mutilate or threaten others,

Don’t you see beyond the blood-soaked fog,

And the dark abyss of satan’s pit of a heart?

We are all human, alive, we breathe, we feel,

When a hand full of us break away and rot,

Does the whole of mankind rot and become putrid?

Should I say that we all are responsible for a branch that is defiled?

 

You and i are more than a look,

We are all more than yellow, brown

White, pink, red, blue?

More than woman, man, rich poor

Tall, small, big, wide, slim

More than the Oh for

Heaven’s sake, if we were even green blobs,

Would it make any difference?

That we are human, and that

We as a whole cannot be blamed

Cause even oil won’t mix with water,

They are the oil, we are the water

If one drops, don’t imagine that it will smother