Unless You're Born Rich

nature's a B..ch

the veins in your left arm
stick out just a little bit more
because that's where the heart
     is just a little bit closer to

the opinions from your forebrain
always mean a lot more
because that's where your thoughts
     are truly formed from

and the hate that you brew
or maybe the peace that you sell

or the indifference that you live
all come from the place

 
     that you were born from

roses don't grow in landfills

weeds don't grow in rich gardens

and murderous devastation 

is not a common occurrence 

     among certain societies 

     with certain opportunities 

and our insidious hatred 

it all comes from a place
just like our sweet tasty tolerance 

                                comes from a place

we are all so f*****g similar

but we grow in such different places

in such different spaces

among such different peoples

    and that is what forms us

    who we are is where we are from

  

so our nature's a b***h

unless you're born rich

and the luckiest can't even tell

why they are hated

                          oh what a blessing

oh what a curse

                        when violence is optional

and starving is irrelevant

en masse

               humans rarely make sense

regardless 

   this world is insane

in one way

   or another 

we all have far less control 

than we're born to believe

Author's Note

Reviews

[sonnie ibadah]

"...and the luckiest can't even tell
why they are hated
oh what a blessing
oh what a curse
when violence is optional
and starving is irrelevant..."

Okay, dude!!!! As an African who has seen things....this speaks to me in such deep levels!

[Davidgeo]

I hope it didn't sound too preachy. To be honest I wasn't sure if this poem was gonna work.

[sonnie ibadah]

Oh, it was just the right amount of preachy if you ask me. See the beauty about poetry....words in general, they can paint a different picture and inspire different feelings in each person. What you have written up there is one of those rare pieces that paint different pictures but touch different people in the same way.

[DIVYA]

In a way, it brings to mind the bees...
All bees develop from the same genome. All female larvae have the potential to become either workers or queens. Researchers have shown that diet plays a key role in what bee larvae develop into. Each type of bee does one task extremely well, to the detriment of other skills. The fact that bees can develop so differently from the same genome makes them useful model for exploring our own psycho social development.

Could money be likened to the jelly in the larval diet....?

[phill..m]

A true poem with meaning, we are all products of the environment we
were born into, all thoughts are just information we have collected over time, great poem.

[Davidgeo]

Thanks Phil. I'm glad you found meaning in it.