Mankind: Poem by Chidinma Ahika

Shall we scatter the single home we share,
So that when rain falls,
We all will enjoy her succulent sickening scold?
Shall we fold tight the gums in our hands to that beggared widow,
So that her children will be most artful
In redeeming our granaries from their excess surge?

What shall be our advantage if we poked an eye for every hurt,
So that we all will one day go blind,
Or avenge all past for posterity to crawl like millipede?
Shall we tell White he is parallel with leprosy
And scorn Black that hers spells inferior,
To lay bare our ignorance of the beauty underlying variety?

Shall we tear down the oneness of rainbow hues,
So that mankind
Would fade in the shades of apocalypse?
Shall we....?

©Chidinma Ahika