What Gives Us The Right

They resembled something from an enchanted folk story

But as they aged, they comprehended that

eternal silence and a life without love would be the norm

The moon beckoned to them from its silver platter

impulsively calling and gesturing to them

They had inherently realized 

that they would forever be shunned by society

and knew that they had come to the closing stages of their lives.

What gives us the right to hurl obscenities

at someone whom is the slightest bit dissimilar to us

We yell abuse at Blacks, Christians, Jews and Gays

for something they did not intrinsically choose to be

We say they have precipitated a crime

yet I see no transgression has been committed whatsoever

Prejudice, it is totally illogical and makes no sense at all

Sometimes we are far too small minded for our own consciousness

For how could someone be excluded for

being born into something that they have no control over

How could we as human beings be so

 fanatically small minded

of anyone that is unlike us