Humanity (Extended Edition)

This is my poem Humanity after many adjustments. If you've read Humanity, you might like this. If you didn't read Humanity, you'll still probably like it. It's really just a longer version

Loss of humanity is an obscenity

People that ran with me

Now will hang with me

To be forgotten in the madness and hatred

Baptized, drowned in the sadness that’s sacred to our generation

Mental health patients that ration their passion lashing out at others with only sensitivity to themselves

Smashing and crashing through the thin glass between detachment from others and pure cruelty

Fighting bloodied on the floor, good people don’t live here anymore

They all died under the feet of those too greedy and hateful to share

Compassion is no longer the fashion; people no longer care

So cash in the checks you make and build a big cake to hide your inability to truly be happy

Set to forfeit empathy, forget how to love

Look down on others, scar the hearts of past lovers, watch your brothers starve

Push, punch, fight, shove

Hurting each other for no real reason

A lack of humanity leaves me hungry for something I used to understand, I held it in my hand

A world where people could be trusted

A world where people would risk their lives for the ones they loved, simply because it was right

A world where it was alright to be sad, weak, or vulnerable

A world where you didn't need to worry about being torn apart

A world where even after winning a fight

We wouldn’t trample the bodies of those who have already lost it all, we had dignity, mercy, there would be no reason

We’re in season for a species-wide treason

People can’t be there for their fellow human beings, am I seeing clearly?

Or is this merely a delusion?

Leading me to the conclusion that we’re lost

While I’ve come across an illness that I’ll never be cleaned of

I wear gloves so I don't infect you with my feelings

Because I don’t feel loved, I just feel chilled by my heart of ice, and others even colder. It hurts to breath

Freezing cold in the mold left behind of better times rotting away

I wished for a better today, but that won’t happen

Bombs drop on the heads of innocents, while goverments feel proud, it wasn’t meant to be this way

Oil is worth more than human lives to some, and fighting back for others is just a way to survive

Humans thrive together, not apart

Not at each others throats, burning the meat from each other’s bones, a barrage of bullets is worse than sticks and stones

But at this point even words hurt the battered body of humanity

It hurts everyone, everywhere, because people no longer care

So I play my music

Write more poems and shut out the world

But I’m haunted by the gray pain left behind that I can’t clean myself of

It always stays with me

The only person that was truly there for me was that pain personified, the voice in my head

It wasn’t my choice to keep living every day

But if I left there would be no s***s given anyway

Love is as fragile as paper

Ripped, ruined, creased, frayed

I learned to tell people to stay away

Because I may be the most dangerous person in my life

Slicing, severing serving size portions of love

Morsels of emotional for those without fortune

But these happiness stamps can only get you so far, and I feel empty in my stomach

I think everyone’s starving

But some of us are full of s**t

Because I smell hatred coming from their mouths when they yell

Repelling those they can’t accept

Whether they say it behind closed doors or in a way more direct

Isn’t this the perfect respect that you wanted?

I want to say this when they expect something more than the ones they stole from

Hurt

You flaunted how your better but you are hurting too

Besides, your just adding to the piles of pain that litter the street like garbage

Feeling blue? Yes it's true

Well we’ll lock you in the mental ward zoo

Hope you get better soon, while you waste away in your room on pills

What a beautiful white walled tomb

There I realized I’m not the only person in hell

But there isn’t a lotion or gel that can repair the bridges that fell between us

There aren’t any new apps, phones, or computer games that can replace the need for humanity

Love

And you can’t truly love until you forget how to judge

I was hurt by many people, but if I still held a grudge all I’d feel is worse

I’m no demon, but I’ll tell you, I know what it feels like to be cursed with misfortune

If I could reimburse my material possessions for love I would, because their worth nothing

Only humans can cure human suffering

The insanity that is the 21st century is a documentory

Of words being thrown like excrement sent with the intent to hurt more than a fist ever could

Bliss is replaced by goverments, people, and a society that hates itself and everyone else

Resulting in everyone’s bad health

So I sit here writing with my computer mouse and cry

On the inside because if I give in to such a weak fact then I might as well die under the pressure that tomorrow will bring

Making me sing my obituary until I’m crushed like the ant I am under the dress shoed foot of society

I know tomorrow is immensely filled with put downs, broken noses, and profanity

And that’s at best

I haven’t even seen the rest yet and I don’t want to test those open bloody waters

I’d rather totter back into the threat of pain through human interactions, slowly losing traction

And falling down into a deeper part of hell, navigating the tunnels, digging myself deeper with desperation, trying to make the best of the worst

Falling head first into dirt worth more than I am

Because at least I know what that feels like

Author's Note

I very seldom reply to reviews, but I promise I read EVERY single one. I look forward to my next review, because it helps me learn. Even if it's just one word, I promise, I will be ecstatic to have the chance to hear what you have to say. Whenever you write something about my poems, or the themes of my poems, or criticize me it is not in vain. I will listen, learn and be thankful.

Reviews

[Jackie]

You're words are immensly powerful. They speak honesty and realism.. I cant help but respect that. You show a lot of love for people and a whole lot of pain for the way these things have become. Maybe check out mine as well. When you get the chance. I really do like and adore your words and ginuinity.. You are a real soul who cares and bare the wounds for many to see in hopes you wont be the only one feeling such a way... Keep up the spectacular work!!:-)

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

I will definitely check out your poetry! I'm glad you liked this. I'm not very good with reviews, but I promise to at least read a half dozen of your poems!

[Jackie]

Inl most cases im not goos with reviews either. Sometimes i just leave. 1-3 words.. Thanks for your reading though

[Abraham George]

i agree with her view

[Najam Us Saher]

After reading this I feel that you deeply care about the people...That's really good to know and the way you have written about every minute detail in depth is just marvellous....

[R.J Calzonetti (SinisterPotatoe)]

Thank you! Your support is always appreciated! Your so nice!

[Najam Us Saher]

You are most welcome.