Apartheid Poem by Savita Tyagi

So we can work any profession
Choose where ever we want to live
Study in any school of our admittance
Travel, eat, play any where with remittance
Love and live with who ever we choose to
Is apartheid really a thing of past
Is it not springing anew?
On a coffee cup that I bought in DC
It says E Pluribus Unum
Out of Many, One
A march of Many towards One
Hand in hand in unity
Look deep inside
Are our hearts united?
Beating as one
Or divided like a split pea
Between the Dark and lighted spheres
A solid yellow line blocking empathy
Despising unity
Embankments of hate and disgust
Greed and profit
Power and its manipulation
Spewing poison like mustard gas
Inventing ever new names
For discrimination
For division
We need to find the broken yellow line
A soft maneuvering within
To cover the distance of you and I
The guiding reflectors
The shimmering little lights of love
A crossing over
A new shade of compassion
Apartheid must end there
With in us
In our hearts.