(zeh)en [the mind]

how can you

reduce

the body

the actions

the thoughts

the silence

of my colour

of my creed

of my origin

to the category

“of unimportance”?

how can you

assume

a spirit

to be satiated

when you

refuse to

comprehend

its thirst?

why is a tongue

drenched with

a grade

a marking

an achievement:

what you like to call

“intelligence”?

why do we not drown?

but surely if not us

then our future

lineages shall

have this breakdown

they say illiterate

they say ignorant

my words

my ears

my eyes

mindless

with an innate mind

silent and savage

with a bloodline

inexcusable and exotic

when i speak my

birthright.

God-given

but scorned and labelled

by those on Earth:

all of whom should be

insignificant

participating in

the race

for a

global vernacular

that is not even mine

is it in our nature

to claim a superior?

is only one tongue

allowed

to be revered?

why do we hierarchize

the syllables of sustenance?

the speech of you and i:

the defect

or

accent

of mankind

in what language

do you even try to

impress

the unhearing and unkind?

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