We Carry In Us - Ravi's poem

Guest post from my husband, Ravi.

Not being biased, but his poems about life and love are pretty good.  

Will share his other poems in this blog from time to time.

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We carry in us

Our mothers, fathers

And their

Fathers

And mothers.

Their joys and

Their prejudices.

The world is

Not the world it really is

But the one

we see through their eyes

These shackles that

hold us

are unseen

and mostly

unfelt

clouding our vision

and our thought.

Few are those

Who free themselves

From this quandary of life’s

view

through a stained glass.

 

I wish not

Such unnatural

chains

In the name of culture

and race

to bind my children

or their children.

Because humanity

Is forever less

for this

And we live lives

Tainted by these prejudices

That plagues most of us.

Ravi

May/8/2014