The Challenge

I am a Russian Jew girl By definition I’m a stingy drunk whore and being human, I assume that I’m like scum for there’s nothing new under the sun. People killing and lying and cheating and raping; All those crying and bleeding - there’s no escaping the pain that we’re born in remains. Through life we with hurtful words and sticks and stones sustain the soulless pit inside of us - attempting to fill an empty void, finding only disdain. Our parents attempted to save us from joining their fate by teaching us the Golden Rule is the gate to fulfillment It will give us the peace we’re craving. But their actions engraving a chokecherry tree on our backs They say one thing but in their animation they: Walk and get walked on Stomp and get stomped on Stab and get stabbed in the humanity they chose to embrace hypocritically forgetting the race to stop the waste that from and into the bottomless void that is the soul. And then weep at night for the monster they created; Hitler had a mother, too. And then he conquered his brothers with the freedom he was given he took it away. He allowed the Angel of Death to see how much a mother could take before she stopped being a mother and let the mutant shock her children while she watched them scream and thought “Glad that’s not me.” We give each other freedoms and then leave them there to rot because being human is a curse that unbought would wreak destruction but the question must be asked; Is it worse? Would it be worse if we were forced to silence; our freedoms removed? Or is the action of Westboro Baptist Church somehow a distraction from the interaction of the dissatisfaction without the reaction they attain? A wise person once told me; “If you don’t have anything nice to say Don’t say anything at all.” But we do; we play with each other’s emotions like with a ball; Kicking and throwing Touching all over finding a soft spot and destroying. Calvin and Hobbes - a tiger and boy - Have more freedom than some people know. Hobbes sent Calvin a secret letter with an insult And Calvin thought better of his toy tiger friend Didn’t suspect And this went on and on and on And we realized that the anger that Calvin expressed was at himself. But his humanity kept him from seeing because psychologists say we only start understanding at 12. But understanding what? That who we are is never enough; That being human does not bring trust That the rust on our hearts Just shoves us down and down and down. The disgust with humanity and the flaw should be sufficient for some emotion to draw. That is my challenge.