life during wartime in poetry

lines, imaginary
lines, ancient and meaningless
lines, revered and deadly-arbitrary
the kind of lines that do
divide humanity from itself
to make some con-man a few bucks
to convince us that there are actually
certain kinds of people in certain kinds
of places and that we should only concern
ourselves with the people behind our own
cruel imaginary ancient arbitrary lines
but it’s all made-up, it’s just made-up
help each other
wherever you go wherever you are
wherever anyone has come from
we’re all just here to help each other
the lines are merely lies
to let yourself pretend
that we’re not the same
we are all the same and
the lines are meaningless.