Demarcations Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

It's believed that life's major demarcations come in twos
Life and death are separated by an invisible layer of mystery
Black and white races are divided by a minute amount of melanin
Night and day are separated by a thin mist of time
Male and female are distinguished by a single strand of DNA
Love and hate are separated by a microscopic strand of spiritual fibre
Belief and disbelief are distinguished by a thin senseless line of reasoning

Now let's look closely at the fountain of life
Consciousness and unconsciousness are not separate entities
Inside the same bowl of life
Unconsciousness can be exhumed
Where consciousness stood
The curtain of unconsciousness gives way to the window of consciousness
That which was occupied by night is occupied by day
There is no real demarcation between day and night
Just a veil of darkness covering the firmament
There is no real separation between joy and sorrow
Just a swinging pendulum treading the path of life
There is no strand of fibre between man and woman
The same vessel of life has many attributes
The veil of segregation is nothing but an illustration of character
It's now or never that mankind should uproot any divisions
And follow the path of consciousness
Together we stand and divided we fall

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