Resolution 2017

"It's not affecting your life na?"
See, I know it's not
Not directly
But it is personal.
Because you took away
The dream that there's hope
For millions
Looking to move up
To move out
To move on
From worlds that don't understand them
And I take dreams very seriously.

"But you can't change anything, so just move on"
But why?
One day
One country
Now one man
Changed everything.
And made it okay
To hate.

And hate causes wars
Hate causes hate
Hate burns and corrodes
Hate divides
And divides
Till the root of life
Is hate.

So why not?
Why can't one voice
One poem
One... Me
Change anything?

Nobody says anything
Because it's one country
Fuck them
Is about time someone
Kicked them in the superiority

For a moment there
We were living in a world
Where people wanted to love
Where "law" was friendly
Where the CEO of Google
Didn't have to call in personal favours
To let me in
To my own country
Where every news article
Didn't put me behind new bars
Where my anatomy
Was not making me a target
Where I had an option
To not be afraid.

And it wasn't political
It wasn't business
It was social
It was intrinsically human
To care.

And you know what?
I want to care.
And I want to get started now.
Because
The debates will begin again
Colour
Race
Religion
Pro-life...

...pro-life, that's funny
Did anyone think about life
When they took these calls
To build walls
To keep people out
To pick a thread
And slowly unravel life?

I want to make it harder
For everyone around me
To ignore people
To feel removed
To stay out of it
To "what's it to do with me?"

I'll tell you what it's got to do with you.
Not saying anything means
It's not "him"
It's you
Building walls
Banning people
Ignoring the world
Outside your comfortable
Air conditioned
Perfect
Living room.

One man
And his division
Will multiply
And add
To the voices
Till one
And one
And one
And one
Makes many
Who all took it very personally.

So what I'm going to do
Is care.
And talk about life.
Because let's do that a little.
Forget the objective
Forget the politics
Forget the dhandha
Forget your unfounded fears
And get personal
Because it's all personal...
It's personal as hell.

#Resolution2017

Narrative

You see & I see
Almost exactly the same things
What could be, or may be
But we’re never in sync
You’re half full, I’m empty
And neither of us wins
You say & I say
We see such different things.

What you saw, I missed out
I looked the other way
And by the time you turned around
My frame had already changed.
But this was your world and mine
Not a worldwide release
That you & I saw differently
Was an issue for you and me.
Your truth & mine
No longer what we meant it for
A connection for two
Not a skype call with the world

The world knows what they see
A unit despite disparity
You & I separated
From the common story.
What they read into me
And what they read into you
So different from what we know
So different from our truth.

But who can keep the world away
When they’ve picked their sides?
Now it’s about who saw it right
And picked the winning guy
You saw what I saw
For the first time, aligned
What absolutely could not be
No two ways around this time.
Both glasses half empty
A part empties away
As the world counts their winnings
And our story fades away.