Dark skies, grey clouds
Translucent blue skies, dreamy clouds
It exists regardless
Just in different forms
If everyone harassed each other
We’d live every day expecting
Words of hate and slander in our faces
Punches and black eyes
Thinking threats and torment are normal behaviour
Afraid of what’s next, afraid to do what we want
If everyone deliberately excluded each other
We’d be self conscious to a dangerous extent
Asking ourselves what’s wrong with me?
I’m trash
If everyone, hid past incognito usernames
commented “you should kill yourself” “You’re ugly”
Virtual respect would be nonexistent
We think that comments are just words of belittlement,
But words hurt, to the soul and gut.
Every day we are torn in fits of doubt and insecurity
We’d be clueless about what digital respect is
If everyone’s first impression was a preconceived cookie cutter
Then there would be no introduction, only a conceived bias
A tiny monster called prejudice waiting to engulf every decision
We’d interact with hostility, potentially forming prejudices too
Attacks and slurs a commonality too
Harmony would cry and leave
To the things I’ve covered
There is more to it which I didn’t discuss,
More fatal effects, stories of victims
But I want you to be informed
Just imagine
what would the blue marble erode into?