Saving The World From Inhumanity

• Miriam Tuvel, Grade 10, Kesser Torah College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition

World wars, terror and shooting.
What they all have in common, is the inhumanity that people bleed.
So we use social media as a powerful platform for people like us to plead,
No hate more love or lest we forget. Yet that’s just hypocrisy.

The very next day you judge someone stereotypically,
You eye roll someone that looks different,
You disrespect someone with different beliefs,
You say cruel words to someone with a different religion or race.

You can not kill a lion if you are to afraid to kill a bug,
You can not change the world if you are a coward to change yourself.
Words are as deadly as a gun,
An eye roll determines someone’s self-worth.

So before you plead for the world to be a better place,
Study your actions like a loaded machine gun,
And change each prejudice thing you do to kind-heartedness,
That’s how you help the world from drowning in inhumanity.