Humanity ?
us men,
almost always,
men,
myopic, impotent men,
our manliness oozing, seeping,
dripping,
soaking,
in swathes of red,
scarlet blood on infant skin,
hardened,
caked,
dried on cold, dead flesh.
Who am i,
a man,
myopic, impotent,
my swagger puffed on conceit,
my country right or wrong,
my god not yours,
my culture your caste,
tribe, sect, ideology … … …
Who am i ?
a man ?
knitted into,
shared humanity ?
Perhaps ’tis time,
to let this rotten, festering,
glossy, botoxed, tucked, trimmed, diseased skin,
moult,
laying stark this sham,
this theatre,
these lies, the maggots burrowing deep,
into man,
chiselling, smashing,
beheading, hanging,
shooting, bombing, drone-ing, killing, raping, torturing, killing, killing, killing,
excising man,
ripping man out of humanity.
Yes,
i am man
Banksy
Scribbled Verse 
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thank you yet again. deeply appreciated and warmest wishes my dear friend.
Peace ✌
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Please read my first post
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Thank you. I shall.
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I read you first post – most enlightening.
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Very powerful.
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thank you very much indeed. deeply moving that it touched a chord.
warmest wishes.
Peace friend ✌
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The pleasure was mine
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you’re far too kind and generous. warmest wishes
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To you too 🙃
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Very powerful and very hard hitting Afzal. This question needs to be asked. You have put it in very raw words and the effect is exceedingly powerful. This is an amazing poem many people should read it
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thank you so very much, my sister. your words always inspire me to keep on scribbling … and yes it is a sad indictment on us all for allowing ourselves to become the callous species we have embraced, where greed and notions of racial and ethnic and religious and gender superiority are powerful forces BUT we will hold the line and we will not let our humanity be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Hope and Struggle and Justice must prevail.
The alternative is simply unsustainable.
Peace my friend ✌
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Absolutely Afzal. You speak wise and passionate words. And what gets to me very often is the way in which women, in their own struggles, demonize ALL men. This is u acceptable. We are ALL equal. Thankyou for keeping saying thus Afzsl my friend. Peace
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You’re very kind as always my sister – yes it is unfortunate that at times all men are demonised but not to makes excuses it is more unfortunate that it has been men and the hetero-patriarchal system for millennia that has oppressed women. it is unacceptable and we hope as we make progress towards a more equitable society that not all men will be vilified. Your words are powerful and I salute the strength of your convictions and principled stand.
Peace my sister.
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Afzal, I agree with you. But I actually feel very strongly about this issue of men being vilufied. I used to be in the a ademic world, and extreme feminism was the dominant thing. I cannot TELL you just how much it do inated. A d whilst I do KNOW that women have had to FIGHT fir theur rights, I. Ecame extremely dusturbed at the vutriol that I heard and wutnessed towards men. I am not downplaying women and their fight here, but saying that in many cases they became as bad as the thing they were fighting. I alwats believed that both women and men needed to be luberated TOGETHER. And of course the same fir other issues too. We need a siciety where EVERYONE is fespected as a human being. Where compassion and caring is the lynch pin. And where violence in both action a d word does not exist any more. Some progress has been made, U believe, but we have a long way to go yet. I hope thus makes sense, because U can’t always think of the words that I want. Peace
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I fully agree with you 100% – there can be NO room for blanket vilifying of men – precisely because of what you so rightly say – that it is only by working together and not viewing all men as the ‘enemy’ that we can truly achieve the goals of equality that we strive for. Your words are precise and your experiences and articulating the basic fact that only by accepting each other as ONE united collective of men and women fighting against the injustice we see. It is similar to the example of post Apartheid South Africa where our President Nelson Mandela stressed always that the fight against racial discrimination was a united one – and NOT against all white South Africans – many many of whom fought and died in the common cause of defeating Apartheid. I am absolutely in agreement with you because just as we cannot denigrate a whole group of people of a different race or religion so too we cannot and actually it will be doing the cause a disservice to lump all men as the enemy – it will be not only wrong because then what separates us from the bigots and misogynists. Absolutely crystal clear – I hear you and agree with you – and when reading your words the principle of the issue became much clearer to me – and apologies for repeating myself but just as we would not vilify an entire race or creed or nationality so too we CANNOT hurl vitriol against all men – because we know all too well that there are decent and kind and caring human beings of all races and religions and yes genders too – so I stand and salute you once again for making me think more deeply about the vilifying of all men being, well just plain wrong.
Warmest wishes my dear friend and peace ✌ and may we always robustly debate these issues so as not to fall into the trap where we won’t be different from the racists and anti-Semites and misogynists and homophobes and islamophobes and all the other people who CHOOSE to vilify and denigrate an entire people or in this case all males.
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BRAVO! I LOVE what you have jyst said. We are kindred spurits. It us SO good to “know” you Afzal. May we always debate like this. Peace, my very dear friend and brother
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It certainly is so wonderful to “meet” kindred spirits and likewise a pleasure and an honour getting to know you, my respected sister.
my very best to you as always and yes may we always share and debate and discuss – and it is a pleasure sharing these “conversations” with you.
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and yes a society where everyone is respected as a human being and where compassion and caring is the lynch pin – I repeat your words because they are powerful and so very true
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Thankyou Afzal. We will talk more as and when. Peace.
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absolutely we shall talk more … cheers from South Africa my dear friend
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Cheers from England
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and you make absolute sense and more – and your words are crystalline and filled with respect and caring and compassion for ALL
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Bless you Afzal
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Bless you my sister!
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