Spot The Difference

Spot the Difference

Wherever we’re born is an accident;

The luckless among us condemned from birth,

To live a life term of disparagement,

Where charmed born others whose sense of self-worth

Enables the largest prison on Earth;

Open or maximum security,

Dependent on whims, and who holds the key.

Everyone’s different, so it’s been said,

But human behaviour seems much the same;

Youth the world over’s prematurely dead;

Killed by authoritarians, who came

Enforcing the cause of whatever name;

And often, the news related to you,

Is bound by and skewed to that cause’s view.

Do you remember Tiananmen Square?

The protester stood in front of a tank?

His anger in mind, I urge you: compare

To despair in Gaza or the West Bank;

And if there really is a God to thank

For your blessings, ask of him: where were you

When the bombs rained down and the missiles flew?

If a child of Palestine isn’t slain,

Chances are he’ll be deemed a terrorist

By those intent on bombarding my brain,

With tripe I feel duty bound to resist;

His anger is justified I insist!

If not as much as I did yesterday,

Now there’s a minefield of things we can’t say.