RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
Dehumanization
Dehumanization begins with
The delineation of classes
Be it royalty or wealth
The division of the masses
Into higher and lower beings
Enables cruelty and neglect
To those of lesser means
The undeserving of respect
Born to serve their betters
Those of higher pedigree
Those of wealth, the jetsetters
Those who brandish their degrees
From institutions of privilege
Harvard, Yale and Trinity
They’re simply better than the ones
Who sweat for their next meal
The ones who live by their hands
The ones who often beg and steal
Won’t they ever understand
By the turning of the wheel
They’re simply cruder, lesser than
The ones who carry the great seal
The royal bloodline of the grand
Within the circles of the few
Who speak in whispers soft but sure
There is nothing we can do
To ease their suffering
We are the chosen, wise and pure
While they are something more obscure
Dare I say (something less than human)
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