What Defines Us?

I tried to sleep but it won't come, a thousand headaches wrestled with me but my resilience brought me dizziness as I stumbled out of bed and fumbled with a glass of water, I stood and watched the Digital Satellite against the wall of my flat. Here was the Prince of Saudi having difficulty breathing, there was a royal prince of England accused of underage sex, another plane was still be looked for in the belly of the sea, over a hundred souls missing. I'm asking what defines Us? Is it the money we have? It buys pills and pays bills but never heals or guarantee health. Is it Security? I saw the black gold plated gates of the rich, the security cameras that lined his beautifully painted mansion, the proud broad chested body guards that harassed with inspection, even a passing fly. Yet a man walked in unnoticed, and killed him without a scratch, this man also ran a truck into the gentle man who sat in front of his newly bought car. His name: death. Is it Our Class? The American boasted he wasn't born black and in a poor African continent to a 'niggar'. That night, a hurricane swept him, his house and his family. Even the surgeon was helpless when his daughter died of a cold and the farmer's son was saved under his blade after a borrowed fund and hours of operation. The priest who raised the dead died by evening. What defines Us? It's not class or color, age, size, place or name but the common things that unite Us: That we are Humans and to Err is human. Therefore, let every one reading this put off the garments of pride, wash away guilt and filth of inhumanity in the pool of righteousness, come out whole to be the bridge of love across the oceans of divide. Melchizedek (C)2015, January