What a strange time we are living in.
Can you imagine a time more desperate?
A time so morally barren and arid
A time where indifference is the norm
And humanity is the exception.
Where inequality, injustice and discrimination
Are as common as the much-feared viruses.
When someone has to die in need of blood
Although everyone around has plenty to give
I feel we as humans have failed Humanity
Doesn’t your heart weep for the husband?
Whose wife is bleeding to death for their little bundle of joy
Doesn’t your eye well up, your conscience feel heavy?
When someone’s existence is about to be sniffed out
Just because there’s no blood.
Oh, come on! Can you not see?
What you have inside you?
Can you not fathom?
That, you can save three persons every three months
Just by giving blood
The vigour that courses fiercely inside you
Red under the skin
And yet I see a silver lining
In this dark cloud of pandemic
Yes, you can be the one.
Worthy of the songs we sing for gods
You don’t need to move mountains
Neither you need to kill a Nemean lion
All you need, a compassionate heart
And kind eyes to see others suffering
And the commitment to act
All you need is to donate blood
That which courses fiercely in you
The life running through your veins
Red, the colour of redemption
Red, the colour of the revolution
Red, the colour that setting sun bleeds into the horizon
Red under the skin
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