Unworthy

I am not worthy for you to come into my dwelling. 

We are not worthy to gather up the crumbs from

Under your table, but you always treat us as worthy

There is none worthy, not one and that is the point

We all should feel unworthy or of the same worth

Yet we label by color and gender and age and where

You grew up as worthy or unworthy. What you know

How you learned, how you talk, is it my language?

Unworthy is the label we like to hand out to others 

Unworthy is the pain of shut out, locked up and

Kept out of polite society. Unworthy is all our labels

When we don't express love, when we don't hunger

For justice, when we don't realize we are unworthy

Yet still of worth