Me The Individual

Human skin pigment ranges from pale yellow, cream, pink to dark brown.

There is no black or white.

Some African tribes are charcoal grey, but not black.

There is but one race, the human race.

Beware anything that Divides us.

We must Unite for the Common Good.

Welcome to Planet Paul.

The fictional “Prisoner” of the sixties said,

“I am not a number, I am a person.”

He also claimed he was a “free man”.

He shouted defiantly that he would not be pushed,

Filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed

Or numbered.

I couldn’t agree more.

Nor will I be labelled or classified.

“My life is my own”.

I’m an individual human being.

Not Working or Middle Class,

Nor white nor religious nor atheist,

Nor racist, sexist, feminist, chauvinist,

No Tory, Liberal. Labourite, Corbynista,

Remainer, Brexiteer, Remainiac, Remoaner

Or whatever.

I don’t do labels.

We are each born as single living entities,

Without asking to be who we are.

All in the same “boat”:

A tiny planet on the far edge

Of a spiral galaxy.

My bowels work like everyone else’s.

I belch and fart.

From time to time I’m ill

Or injured.

A man of many moods.

I’ll live and die like everyone else.

For the bottom line is,

We need to Unite,

As We are All the Same.

Paul Butters