‘Humanity’ and ‘Human’ are not synonymous words…
When we attach greater importance to fulfilling our selfish desires
than we do to imposing measures to stop all the floods and the wildfires
because they’re
‘happening in some faraway land’,
for which we have the upper hand,
for which,
we can keep on driving our petrol guzzling cars,
ignoring the existence of the man in Pakistan-
flooded house-
trying to secure his home with scraps of metal and iron bars,
we can understand that, there is a difference between ‘humans’ and ‘humanity.’
One is what we are.
The other is what we should have
but that we are
losing.
With every war that we see on our screens,
for every time that we turn off the news on TV
because,
we ‘don’t want to think about what it means
to live in a world in which such horrors can take place’,
and yet, we sit by and seemingly tolerate
the abolition of our right to life,
a lack of humanity becoming hauntingly rife
because
‘if it’s not happening to us then it’s not happening at all.’
The illogical logic.
The ‘humanityless’ humans…
Eyes and ears shut
as we look the other way…
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