Human Universality Poem by Tony Adah

And we pretend that
We are different in
Colours and in tongues,
The fallacy of colours
And the multiplicity of tongues
Still we are one;
Locked up in the prison of our minds
The bars harder than steel.


What's not decipherable in
Our language of sorrow
Or our language of joy?
We cry in one universal language
We laugh in one linqua franca
We sneeze, we yawn
All in one language.
If you are white and I am black
What's the colour of our tears?
What's the colour of our urine?
We are blind to them
Tensioning the world
I am superior
You are inferior
Not knowing that good or bad
Has no colour
Has no language
Other than humanity.