NAPOWRIMO #25-LEFT HAND SIDE

Left hand side was inspired by the writing prompt of Joseph Harker on READWRITEPOEM NAPOWRIMO #25


Left hand side
by  Ieisha McIntyre



On the left hand side of consciousness
lies the understanding of a child.
the understanding that love is
 the only currency one has,
the understanding that without love
there is only the beg, barter, and steal
birthed from the drive of survival.

The swindle, the duck and dive,
the top dog, the underdog
and always the loser
ever present.

Hope goes unfed.

But, on the left hand side,
is the Knowledge.
The law love gives,
the only law that maintains the peace.

Beyond war and bombs,
beyond the trials and executions,
beyond human sacrifice ceremony of daily life,
love stops us all and bids us

Pay attention.

to the silence brought to chaos by,
the simple touch inspired love,
the gentle voice inspired love,
the grace given through love,

the mercy.

Ah, the left hand side,
for years derided and seen as a
hinderance of the cold hard
 truth of life,
the ravage of life.
The weak will perish

fact of life.

The ten percent who simply must be
converted
in order to
comfort
the discomforted of the masses.
If only the left could be made right.

                                  if not right,

then their difference must be
distorted
and made suspect.
Their influence must be controlled.

Contained to the left’s small circle--further
within the circle, let their difference be
as a thing that brands
marginal-compassion.

So Marginal that mothers ignore
the cries of their children,
force feed them
from the rationed teat--Government milk.

Believe the milk of their bodies to be
the poison diversity serves,
mothers bind their breasts,
make rigid the sway of their hips.

Keep secret the culture of compassion.
Serve their children fresh cannibal
adroitly
singing sweet lullabies of saviors,
eyes overflowing with confusion and tears.
a child
without love’s truth
can only survive.

Trapped in a circle of constant right turns,
they survive only.

Without a left,
difference becomes an
apparition abhorrent,
the destruction of self
a necessity.

On the left hand side,
we see the unmapped,
and are called to our heroic-
Honor the knowledge
of a child.

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