What does it mean to be human?
Is it just the skin and the bones?
The arms and the legs?
The eyes and the smiles?
A face and a body, measured
Intelligence measured
Success measured
Wealth measured
Can humanity be measured?
What does it mean to be human?
Can we define them by the ones who lived before
them?
The ones whose stories are written in bold
all over their homes
Tattooed all over their anatomies
Can we define them by the ones who will live
after them?
The ones who will look up to them
Or down
Can we define them?
What does it mean to be human?
What does it take to be able to leave some
kind of mark on this Earth?
Either visible or invisible to those who seek
them
Isn't that what they desire the most?
What does it take to be able to talk like
that, to walk like that, to be like that?
What does it take to strip off all that hides
you from the world until you are  left with
only all of who you are?
What does it take to feel pain throbbing in
your heart when you see someone else's shadow
swallowing them in the sunlight?
What does it take to do something, anything?
What does it take to feel happiness?
To feel love?
What does it take to be human?
What does humanity mean to them?
What do they mean to them?
What does being human mean to humans?
Can we ever tell?
Can we ever limit their existence to mere
letters or numbers or words?
Can we ever limit our own being?
Aren't we more than that?
Are we not humans?
Are we not humans?
