Pride Is One Seed

One seed is masked in infancy  
With its intoxicating allure    
Its sexy remedy    
Impersonating ones esteem    
Inseminating the mind with arrogance    
An artificial substitute for confidence    
Yet this sweetener tastes un-Equal    
Stroking the ego    
Through external heights that excite    
Attempting to ascend it's slippery slope  
Each icy step slides one down tenfold  
Leading to a bitterness deep within    
Fueling a growing resentment    
For all that is physically different    
Forgetting that at the core we are One    
We are the same    
Letting go of who you are not    
Is the key to setting us all free    
As part of you is a part of me and we    
And in One we are all together    
Our commonality is the seed of our equality    
Yet in the end to ascend in parallel  
Imperious souls must atone and reparate  
In ways silver pieces cannot compensate  
For the shame I carry for four hundred years of hate    
Cannot be let go of by one alone    
It must instead be released as One together