Ubuntu Poem by John Sensele

Know your preference and prevalence price
Don't conflate your self worth twice or thrice and egregious ice
Lest the din of desperate detractors sin and win
Regardless of the pins and skins of spurious spin

You edify and glorify by default
Dignifying and fortifying their assault
On the unity and diversity of humankind
To which they can't afford to grow blind

Either in theory or in practice
Unless they indulge the malaise malpractice
That confines different melanin proportions
To the periphery of the sherry with odious options

Demeaning the significance of the red blood flowing
In their veins, your veins, our veins owing
To our common humanity
That defies the inanity of long-held and veiled vanity

Which you and I ought to corrode
Unless we empower divisionists to erode
The ubuntu we hold dear
In the hallowed humanity we can't afford to shear or spear.