Bloodshed

Sometime in human history

we were divided,

treating anyone outside the "norm"

as inhuman.

Mistreatment escalated to violence

to obvious human rights violations

And yet we remain stagnant to these horrors.

We all bleed the same,

yet we forget this until innocent blood is shed.

Whether refugees tried to escape another bombing,

or a child was just walking home at night

and looked "out of place."

Even then,

we are prone to immediately forget

and the violence goes on unpunished

and more blood spills.