DPC POETRY: The equality of joy and sadness

Our first breath of life we were sad, crying, not knowing nothing.
The first touch of our mother brought us joy and comfort,
young and innocent without no thought.
All we needed that time was comfort, or an escort:
Eating was not, but breast and tits was the taste, and our touch,
that was the first feeling of equality and security.

Growing up sad for some was plain madness,
while being comforted by toys brought us joy.
Without toys our thoughts was annoyed and we were left without equality,
then sadness came strolling where the comfort for mom was needed.
Where the feeling of breast and the taste of milk come in for feeding,
with the touch and feelings, once again we accept equality.

As we get older, that feeling will keep us searching,
searching for something with a nice feeling,
a feeling that will always remind us of that first feeling of equality.
By then your taste and understanding of life has changed,
cause the demand for equality flashes, and the struggle begins.
The search is on for a job for living, convenience, and the comfort of equality.

Although in the majority we don’t always find equality,
joy and sadness will always be in our thoughts,
due to the maintenance of our life styles.
Some will always have and some will never have – equality.
That’s one of the reasons we have wars and rumors of wars,
cause the cry for equality will always be in our mind.

Today, we’re living in a situation where the actions of man
are to make sure that diversity is in every city, and equality is controlled by the minority.
So joy remains with the ‘haves’ and sadness remains with the ‘ have-nots.’
And the hope for joy and equality is being covered with sadness
and that sadness is what covers our world.  That causes war.
Equality and joy are being turned into sadness,
where madness remains our joy and our equality remains sadness.

DPC is the acronym for Domnichen Poetic Circle, a “Literary Circle of Contemporary Poets, and Spoken Word Artists of Dominican birth and descent. The group endeavors to showcase the broad spectrum of Dominican talent in the area of the written and spoken word and also promotes itself as a platform for interactive conversations on posted content of the Artists, “in the form of constructive critique and reactions, helpful poetry web-links and events, as well as, creative responses.”