Maybe

Maybe the bullets will stop flying , for once
Maybe we will all breathe lead-shot free air
Maybe homes will be welcoming places, free
Maybe we will garner enough courage to speak
against murders of dissenting journalists
Maybe we will finally welcome people who talk
in different tongues , to our home and hearth
Maybe we will empathise with harrowing ordeals
of others , so we may see humanity reflected
in salty ,tears
Maybe one day we will see a child as a human
and not a carrier of religion and language
Like a contagion , burden of birth
Polluting, labelling , segregating
Maybe one day they will reach out to the sky
and claim a fistful of stars
twinkling
in the same universal language
for thousands of years