WE WILL : A poetic rendition on equality among races, genders and sexual orientations.

When they tell you to run like a girl, how will you run?

When they tell you that homosexuality is unnatural, what will you do?

When they judge you by the skin of your ancestors, what will you say?

In order to answer these questions,  let’s correct the question.

How will WE run?

What will WE say?

What will WE do?

A mother gets a maternity leave when a child is born.

But what about the equally responsible father,

Who tends to his crying child and starts his day at dawn?

A father too wants to spend time with his child,

He too changes her diapers and spends every second to make  her smile.

What about the fact that it’s okay for my brother to stay out late?
And me doing the same is unacceptable, because mama yells

 ‘Foolish child! Out in the dark, terrible men wait!’

What about the fact that when we study sex education,

Our education only makes us aware about heterosexual sex?

Speaking of education, my fifth grade teacher once told me

 That, there is no freedom until we’re equal,

That, only love, can transform a world gone cruel.

But she excluded the part where we needed to raise our voices.

Now that we know, we will make our choices and we will take our chances.

We need equality,

Not a couple of Feminazi’s,

Who say they want to do everything men do

And yet demand chivalry.

Women, why feel the need to be like men,

when you be yourself and still conquer the world?

Men, why feel the need to aggravate us in the first place?

Don’t ever think its okay to let your male ego take over.

Both of you, respect each other, with that I rest my case.

We need equality,

Not a male centric society.

We need equality,

Not a homophobic mentality.

We need equality

Not some racist hostility.

Why not make equality a reality,

 When all of us feel love?

When all of us hate?

 When all of us feel pain?

When all of us bleed the same red?

Why not live in togetherness before we drop dead?

Come to think of it, maybe my fifth grade teacher was right about the heart.

Maybe to make a change, love is a good start.

Maybe in it, raising our voices was implied.

I guess my teacher hadn’t lied.

Religion won’t change us,

Laws won’t change us,

Love will change us.

Acceptance will change us.

Respect will change us.

Equality will change us.

WE will change us.

Finally, let’s get back to the question that needs an answer.

Here’s what I think, and while I say it, I will not deter.

When they ask us to run like a girl, we’ll run as fast as we can

When they call our homosexuality unnatural, we’ll kill their hate with our resilient hearts,

and love as hard as we can.

And when they judge us by the skin of our ancestors,

We’ll take our vibrant souls and color the world with a lasting change