POLITICAL Poem: What divides us, by Leah Sutton

You might have to share your time,
Between one child and another,
You might divide your assets,
If your partner finds another.

Work might make you feel
That you fractionate your time,
While you disjoin your life
Just to earn a dime

You could slice down the middle,
Of a freshly cooked up steak,
If you’re feeling really generous,
You could halve your chocolate cake

You could cut down trees to timber,
Chainsaw trees to a stump,
Could segregate your feet and earth,
Simply with a jump

Well Moses divided the waves,
Of the beautiful Red Sea,
While Jesus became separate,
From God for humanity

But what I can’t believe,
Or begin to understand,
Is how divided humans are,
Upon this very land,

The news reports that children,
Are being divided from their own, .
That arms are being ripped away,
When bombs drop from a drone.

That nobody is sharing,
The safety of their home,
The UN’s attempting caring,
While people starve to skin and bone.

The puzzle pieces need
To be set back into place
So we can see the bigger picture

So our minds
and thoughts
and lives
can embrace.
After all, aren’t we the human race?