Take a step outward or inward and look - really look - at me.

Stay still where you are and look at yourself.

You are you and that is truer than true. 

You are your shade, your nationality and religion & in your mind, it defines you. 

It is your pride and differentiates you from the others - 

the ones of a different race & religion; from different mothers.

Now take one step outward and look from above. 

Soar with the birds and stay still in the winds. 

Use a telescope if need be but look at yourselves. 

You are you and that still remains true. 

But there is no difference from up above. 

For from the skies up yonder, you are all the same. 

Your religion and nationality do not define you; nor does your name.

Take one step inward and look from beneath. 

Ignore the proverbs and indeed go skin deep. 

Use a microscope if need be but look at yourselves.

You are you and that still remains true. 

But there is no difference from deep within. 

For beneath your skin, you are all the same. 

Your colour and religion do not define you; nor does your name.

Yes, you are Hindu and Christian & Muslim and Jew. 

Yes, you are black and white and yellow too.

You are you - one of God's blessed few 

But so are each and everyone - all seven billion - of you. 

Below the skin and above the ground, 

you are separated by birth, land and name, 

Yet every other living animal on this planet knows it... 

the simple truth that you are all the same. 

So take a step outward or take a step inward. 

And look - really look at me.

Because if you change your view for merely a moment, 

perhaps you will see - finally see 

that you are but me and I am but you 

and above all else, that remains truer than true. 

Authors note:

It is hard to watch the news today. 

People kill strangers and kids and say it is because they are different. Innocents are forced to suffer the hatred for being the same religion as these monsters. Millions who had a home at the start of the year are turned into immigrants and refugees, victims of the hatred burning within despots and people blinded by bloodlust. 

Even today, innocent people are being killed by policemen for being the 'wrong colour' in USA.

Eating the wrong food, wearing the wrong clothes, reading the wrong books... everything is an excuse to end a life. Educated privileged young men with their whole lives ahead of them choose to become terrorists in Bangladesh and kill strangers just because they perceive everyone different from them as vile. 

The key ideology is always the same - that others are different from us. And that is such a wrong notion.

At any other level, microscopic or macroscopic, when you just look at it, we are all alike. Every other creature on Earth sees it, except for us. The only difference arises from how we teach the next generation to hate based on our biases instead of working towards loving everyone equally.

Stop allowing man made boundaries and century old ideologies to make you hate someone you have never met. 

Don't hate me because you are taught the lie that we are both different.

Love me because you finally see the truth - that we are both alike.