We belong together

He wanted us to blend in,
to join hands so he didn't
sear our naked wrists with
symbols. But we tattooed
them in our vacuous minds.
We made religions and
Counted thousand gods.

He wanted us to breath in
the same air which would
traverse our heart and be
out to be inhaled by others.
So that we shared a bond of
life transparent yet palpable.
We would be connected.

He didn't build bridges but
neither did he build walls.
He separated us by rivers
which flow from you to me.
He didn't mark boundaries.
He gave us one whole earth.
We made nations out of it.

He gave us shades of skin
to rejoice in the bounty of
nature. We became racist.
He gave us one sky, one sun
and only one moon. Yet we
would fight 'yours or mine'?
And we love to wage wars.

He gave us vocations to
make us not feel empty.
We churned out casteism.
He gave us everything
we needed but our wants
became our greed which
doesn't have a creed.

We believe in divisions.
Identities that are false.
We try as much to divide
and diminish into entities,
sorting and sifting through
and more we tumble and
wander lost in woods.

Beneath that cool veneer
we worry ourselves sick
whether we are lovable.
Unknowingly we link and
lock our hands and hearts.
God secretly sneers to keep
us grounded in our doubts.

Yet we don't acknowledge
that we belong together.
A family of great numbers,
reservoir of love and peace.
Of solidarity in diversity.
Waiting for an epiphany.
Waiting for an Armageddon.