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A Poem entitled Human Beings by Adrian Mitchell. look at your hands your beautiful useful hands youre not an ape youre not a parrot youre not a slow loris or a smart missile youre human not british not american not israeli not palestinian youre human not catholic not protestant not muslim not hindu youre human we all start human we end up human human first human last were human or were nothing nothing but bombs and poison gas nothing but guns and torturers nothing but slaves of Greed and War if were not human look at your body with its amazing systems of nerve-wires and blood canals think about your mind which can think about itself and the whole universe look at your face which can freeze into horror or melt into love look at all that life all that beauty youre human they are human we are human lets try to be human dance! © Adrian Mitchell from The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000- 2004 (Tarset: Bloodaxe,2004) - this poem won the public poll of the Poetry Societys National Poetry Day 2005 favourite poem to send into space, to best convey a sense of humans today.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:13:29 +0000

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