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Othering
We need to turn othering into brothering..
Mistrust into mothering
We need to stop this toxic mentality
Of cruelty, hate and brutality
We truly are our brothers keeper
But the connection is just so much deeper
We buy into the lies
We cover our eyes
Blind to others pain
Only out for personal gain
We must have the new the best the latest
We let our envy and greed to often persuade us
That we must be haves and not have nots
In keeping up we seem to have forgot
That it’s the purpose of this life we live
To learn and grow and thrive and give
We much rethink the way that we are
Be human again and raise the bar
Bring back our sense of community
Of who we are, what it meant to be free
We much fight to get back all we have lost
No matter how hard, or how high the cost
It’s time for real change to truly begin
And perhaps in time we’ll be human again
Not these creatures of anger, of fear and of hate
We must rediscover how to care and relate
To see other as human not just as things
Let go of bias, stigma, and false misgivings
They dived us on purpose so they can rule
And we buy in and believe it then act the fool
We believe all the lies, slurs and stereotypes
The...