Being Human

      

 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 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.