The flag doesn’t hang
On Sundays,
But on every other day
The girls wear their crosses, their veils…
And boys their yarmulkes, their turbans…
This separation of church and state-
Where church can impose upon state
But no religious organization
Can be touched by the power
Of government-
Is a problem.
The warring exists on all levels.
Within one country,
Every party is against the next.
Even where there is but one party,
Harmony flees the corruption.
Nations pin themselves
In war.
Then there are the states
Who fight other countries,
Because the preachers and the imams
The rabbis and the shamans
Don’t preach about
A world of people.
There is a race of humans,
The human race,
But it’s been divided
By a tonation
So insignificant that
Genes do not even store a record.
Why is this,
The last information
We know of ourselves?
It comes to us when the problem
Has already developed,
And nobody will take the time
To slow down
And listen to one another.