The first humans
To inhabit this planet,
Weren’t separated
Into scores of nations.

They were just people,
One or two groups,
Or perhaps a few,
Living together,
Until there were many –
But there weren’t any
Big books of rules,
Certainly not back then,
In the very beginning.

What started off
In the beginning,
Perhaps as clans,
A bringing together
Of familial lines,
And similar minds,
With the passage of time,
Evolved into tribes;
And further on,
Kingdoms were born.

In the beginning,
There was just land,
And of course water,
Spanning this planet –
Where everyone
Lived together,
Until someone decided,
To create a divide,
To seal their name
On a parcel of land,
And protect it
As their own.

Battles were fought,
And wars waged,
To protect kingdoms;
Someone’s loss,
Was another’s gain,
Here, a kingdom lost,
There, a kingdom won.
Where nature hadn’t
Allowed for distinctions,
Humans birthed demarcations,
And a multitude of nations.

And so, what began,
As an act,
To form a pact,
To serve for unity
Against the wild,
Was morphed in time,
To break the very core,
That gave it form.

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