The Plague

 More than the global pandemic

Ripping through the lands;

Worse than the mighty torpedoes

Blowing away the offshore sands;

Angrier than the summer fires

Burning through the wild;

Or the highest tsunamis

That have the seas riled;

We have a plague of global concern-

And not the kind hard to discern-

Not air-bone, nor of the stars,

But inbred amongst human kind;

In the form of tribal wars

Of every form, and of every find.

Not of the rats, and not of the genes,

But the nurtured idiosyncrasies

Raging through us all-

Damaging body and soul-

Is the new plague:

Of clanism

Of tribalism

Of racism

Of fascism

Of otherism.