Borders - a poem.

Small lines on a map, is that what it comes down to?
Borders making "order" of the world that surrounds you
Taking sides, building pride, getting rich, taking lives...
Not the kind of order on which higher purpose survives
But the truth is that the borders really start in our minds
It's all a head game, made of numbers and divides
Sometimes all I wish is for the world to hit pause-
11:11 rolls around, I frame my hopes in a clause...
Let love foster selflessness, and from there understanding,
Then comes peace-
Why are we so demanding?
Millions of kids today, dying of AIDs
But we say we can't do much, they cost too much to save...
Says the CEO driving home in his Escalade.
Huh.
Something's wrong with that logic.
Pretending we don't have a cure when we've started to solve it
Holding out 'till we can find a way to make a bigger profit
Equating human lives to a bill in my pocket
I can't buy something new from helping you, so your life? I'll rob it.
Humanity.
We share this.
Brotherhood?
We don't.
It's messed up that's the difference between "will" and "won't".
What would happen if we re-wrote history, took out war, put in compassion
If we create a different past, would we have different action?
Would the ones who follow us eradicate hate?
Or argue that this learned emotion is part of our fate...
Excuses-
Yeah, well, I'm sick of them all.
See,  all they ever do is build us up to our fall.
Maybe to you this is all just a set of rhymes.
Idealism and naivety, all arranged into lines.
But I refuse to resign-
 I believe we can win.
Believing in the confines of our sin... this locks us in.
My lines aren't like those of the borders we create,
Realism isn't truth; hope isn't fake.
It's all what we make of it- whose sake we fight for
This life is more than money, more than pride, more than war
Forget greed, forget me, forget you, remember humanity...
Cause if our decisions now are sane, then I don't believe in sanity.

Dedicated to: Uncle Tony. I never met you because AIDS took you away before I could, but you'll always be loved.

Inspired by: Jeffrey Sach's article in the Economist, which shed light on the fact that rich countries(such as ours) could find vaccines for AIDs,malaria, and other devastating diaseases claiming millions upon millions of lives in underdeveloped countries... yet we have not. Why? Because the countries that need it lack the ability to pay us a price for them which we could profit from. I find this horrifying. How is this at all ethical? To withhold technology and let millions of fathers, husbands, sisters, mothers, and children die or be orphaned because they are unable to pay the steep prices proposed.. it's not ok.

Calling for: Change.