528 Words on Stardust

Stardust

Made the world

After the Big Bang

The universe was

A melting pot of

Quarks and gluons

People say

"No, God created everything"

"Chaos was the beginning of all"

etc.

So?

I don't care at all if they say I'm wrong

I won't say they're wrong

Maybe they're right?

We can all have our own beliefs

No one says we can't believe

That Prometheus gave us fire

Instead of lightning striking a tree

And Nu Wa created humans

Instead of evolution

It really doesn't matter

I don't understand why

A petty argument like this

Can destroy lives

Kill minds

Break hearts

Hurt innocent souls

It really doesn't make sense, does it?

How me being Atheist

And you being Christian

Can bring our world into turmoil

Atheists don't have to hate religion

Christians and Protestants are not natural enemies

Buddhists and Daoists can be best friends

Religion doesn't make you who you are

Stardust

Is in outer space

"We must be

The first to reach there

Destroy the Russians

Destroy the Chinese

Destroy the English

We must be the first"

What is the point?

All will benefit all

Technology and science

Can be our strong point

But the barrel

Can hold as much as

Its shortest length

Stereotypes

Are stereotypically insulting

Stereotypically untrue

Stereotypically biased

But so what?

Maybe

Russians do have long noses

Chinese are bad drivers

Americans do eat a lot

And maybe

The Italian do like to sleep

But that doesn't really matter, doesn't it?

Nationality

Or ethnicity

Doesn't make who we are

500 words

Are a lot to write

About religion

And politics

But who says

That they have to define us?

Who says

That we can't be friends?

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In a natural poem

My words flow

But eventually

They fall into holes

And I have to drag them out

Or they'll turn into

Stardust

And then the whole cycle

Of friends, wars

Love, belief

Enemies, bias

Will start again

Maybe it'll be better

If there was no religion?

If there was one religion?

If there was a central government for the world?

If no one stood up?

If everyone was the same?

Maybe dystopian novels

Have it right

Maybe we should divide

Everyone into factions

Or leech color out of the world

And have nothing that we had in the beginning

But everything we have in the end?

I think that

We should continue living

Band together to survive

Share tears and fears with friends

Find another way of living

Give this world a final chance

I don't want to dream forever

Of a time when nothing barred our way to friends

To alliances, love, marriage, equality

Understanding and forgiving

If you can't understand, try to understand

Don't ever kick something away because you don't get it

On the way to discovery

Many inventions are born

You have to listen

Listen closely, listen carefully

Then you will understand

And by understanding

You'll know what it's like

To be Christian

To be a Democrat

To be Communist

To be Australian

To speak French

To be gay

And when we understand

There's acceptance

And when there's acceptance

There's friendship

And when there's friendship

There's peace.