(In Nepal, there is a divide between the people of the hills and the plains - the Madhesis, who have historically been discriminated against by the state. Derogatory terms referring to Madhesis are used casually, without a single thought about the consequences of such hateful words. Children pick them up from their parents and the cycle of bigotry continues)
Conditioned at birth to hate
Like our parents before us
We’ve all been raised on a steady diet of ignorance
I can touch the divide
Unstated but not unseen
Words that prick
Will lead to bigger wounds
Guilty of staying silent
Complicit in keeping shut
Ashamed of all that I’ve seen
We’re recidivists one and all
This city is a great raw wound of emptiness, void of feeling
And I can’t hide this bottomless pit that is my contempt
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