A day of the year Someone say is your day And nationalism or whatever ism reign supreme With flags waving and many a cheers Giving off impressions of love and unity Trying to show the world Maybe remind yourselves Who you think you are How you could be if you so choose   Supposing someone Should declare a day worldwide Call it a day for humanity A chance to embrace the human oneness Could we as a people  Put aside the differences for that day Celebrate that moment With the passion and pride displayed When nationalism and other isms are celebrated As we embrace these little niches The ultimate lines of our division   Embracing isms before your humanity Putting the universal love behind bars Subtly maintaining the divisions Providing justifications for the hatred Putting this life on a pedestal Undermining the importance of the next What balances does your life hangs in When the universality of the human being Becomes over-shadowed by nationalism As your humanity counts for naught   Seeing yourself as something else first And a human being somewhere behind that Is but arrogance within and deception to self Allowing some to lay claims to ideas of superiority Propagating false doctrines of divisions Maintaining the inequality and injustice Keeping us in a cycle of hatred and violence While some rob and pillage behind false superiority Be it race religion, nationalism, culture, royalty ….. All these ideologies overshadowing the humanity Providing seats of power for tyrants and murders   [Home] [About] [Contact Us] [Poetry] [My Poetry] [Featured Poem] [User Poems] [Three Poems] [Events] [Guidelines] [Legal]