We can discover the package in which we’ve been delivered
Remembering it arrived without a label or price
We accept it as our own until …
We enter the social world and adopt their vice
Suddenly labels and prices are stamped on every pack
Black, white, rich, poor, good,bad, competent, disabled
All thoughts derived from an opinion
Causing regret for the package we’ve always had
Every package carries many labels and deserves their value
Remember it from start to finish, filled with love
Enjoy the wrapping you were given
And shed the labels and false pricing like a glove
Submitted to dVerse Poetics: On Privilege
We accept it as our own until …
We enter the social world and adopt their vice
I like your choice of word, vice not view which would be the common choice.
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Adopting other’s ways against who we are, it starts as a view and grows into a vice.
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I think there are too much energy paid to labels… it masks the human behind.
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LOVE this idea! Born as a package….labels inflicted by others and environment etc.
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It would be an ideal world without labels and prices on every package or things. Love is a beautiful message.
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The sacred mantra of psychotherapists … “First you learn to love yourself”. Easier to say than do, but, once mastered, “their” labels are worthless detritus.
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It would be nice to choose not to play the game. Sadly, that would mean going off the grid a bit. I like your optimism here.
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Every package indeed deserves value and it would indeed be a utopian world where labels wouldn’t matter anymore.
I really liked this bit: “Remember it from start to finish, filled with love/Enjoy the wrapping you were given”.
This speaks to me of celebrating our differences through the common thread of love. A lovely poem!
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Glad to hear the thread of love was recognized. Unique qualities should be celebrated.
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Nice write on freeing ourselves of labels that are limiting.
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