God,
Make me immune to all that I
may see-squalor and slime
Make me impervious to all that I may breathe- stench and grime
Make me impervious to all that I may breathe- stench and grime
Make me oblivious to all that
I may feel-pain and agony
Make me human, an unemotional
wall with boundaries as family.
Let me have no conscience to
grapple with,
to forget the lil girl picking
an apple from a heap of wet trash, with
hungry eyes and dilated pupils
Let this memory be erased that
is burning my temples.
Let me have no decency to
rebel
Just forget the scars, the
black eye of the belle
Going on with her routine
saying she fell from the stairs
Let me gulp down her lies,
oh! Let me not shed my priceless tears.
Let me have no warmth to
offer
Forget the boy who smiles unaware
of his sickness, unaware of his parents’ sin
Living unbeknownst of the
devilish lesions growing on his body
Let me have no guilt of being
part of this travesty.
Let me feel no
responsibility. For what is it to me? They’re not my kin!
Let me bury myself in
superstitious beliefs and believe it’s their sin
With all the malignant forces
sucking all the innocent life away
Unburden me; let me be numbed
to the heartless human decay.
Unburden me from the
guileless questions of orphans
Unburden me from the heartache
of homeless elders
Unburden me from the miseries
of violated women
Unburden me from the pure
laughter of sick children.
Make me insensible to the cries
of others
Make me shallow for the
wounds of my fellow brothers
Bless me with rudeness and
lewdness
Bless me with impotence and
ignorance.
For isn’t this all Being human?
Then God!! Make me Human.
