Intolerance Fuels Social Tensions Conflict Poem by Terence George Craddock

(a study questioning prejudice and intolerance)

Society personalities infested with prejudice.

Taught nit picking differences
skin colours hair colours
way he she walks talks
offensive clothes gang patches
tattoos out of fashion clothes shoes

Man type bothers me
the drunks,
the gangs,
the fightings,
the dysfunctional dishevelled lives.

I will not tolerate it.
I will not accept it.
I will reject it.

I turn my back on it.
I should not have to look at it.
I will sign post prohibit arrest it.

My God!
What is to become of it?
Nit picking spotting eye sight!

They are disdained dregs
disrespected distanced by
dispossessing discarding society.

I kill them with indifference
as surely as I kill the fly
with my irritated intolerance.

They have but a moment
to live to die.
We have but a moment
to peace restore try.
A little peace tolerance to buy?

They have no part place
in grandiosed perceptions
all inclusive humanity
when theory
impacts upon reality.

Tell me by what right
do we live do we die?


Copyright © Terence George Craddock