Racism

The history of humankind is

Stained by the blood of innocents

Enslavement, racial cleansing, hatred and despair

Humans reduced to less than animals

Racism.

Fear is ever-present

Fear is deadly

Fear of those who are different

Has killed thousands.

Sounds fill the air

Sounds of mothers screaming from children lost

Of families torn apart in agony

Death cries of those who have given up

But the world is unheeding

The world stands by, watches, listens

While millions suffer

Their moans drowned by the laughter

Of their tormenters.

The world smells the burned hopes and dreams

The smoke of despair

And the world does nothing.

The people do nothing

As their brothers are murdered.

Rivers of blood flow thick enough to taste

The blood of the martyrs

Cries for vengeance

But the world does not taste

Does not see

Does not hear

Does not smell

Does not feel

Does not.