The Hidden Cost of Inequality
Is there a price that you are willing to pay?
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2 min readMay 30, 2020
The cost of inequality
exercised by privilege and power
serves to perpetuate
the ransom all humanity pays
A ransom which has cost us dearly
dragging humanity into an enormous debt
orchestrated by division
Societal constructs
of race, gender, wealth, sexuality
Cloaked in subjectively
Once there to identify the group to which we belong
Have now become the agents
Often used with blind ignorance
and a seasoning of hypocrisy
to preserve the dissonance
we know too well
All too frequently we see the generation debt
a consequence of the hefty ransom
inherited for no reason other than
it is safer and easier to pay
The oppressor and oppressed all lose
An unfortunate human tragedy
In which very few care to comprehend
our diminished human potential
