Dawning day

DAWNING DAY

The world grows darker every day

Perversions and avarice find their way

Despondence grows

Hopelessness shows

Where it will lead

nobody knows

 

troubles collide in increasing number

hitting a mankind that has grown more numb

writhing under the oppressors thumb

what is it we have become

 

like an avalanche it swells

on it we increasingly dwell

towards a solution

our minds are compelled

 

on the large scale

we cannot effect

what we need

is to be more direct

 

Look around and what do you see

Friends, neighbors and family

This is the arena for making a change

This is the scope the extent of our range

 

Uplift heart to heart

Each doing our part

Increasing the need

Of those who take heed

To change the sorrow

To a more joyous morrow

 

For only this way

Will we change the day

Increasing the numbers that hold sway

 

Masses bemoan

That they are alone

As each heart is connected

Their souls resurrected

 

The increasing light of this unity

Bringing about fulfilled destiny

When each and every person on Earth

Will be together around loves hearth

-Shiidon, October 2008

Each day is seems that sorrows wax.  Jobs are being lost wholesale, nations are being brought to their knees and everyone is finding themselves in a confused time.  The world of my childhood does not exist today.  To days world is interconnected and interdependent.  The current financial crisis has added its ugly head to the already increasingly ill effected systems of this world.  In the United States the educational system is undergoing further collapse, the other institutions that we have long depended on are becoming increasingly undependable.  

In light of this we can take several courses of action.  One course of action is to "join in the fun" and carelessly add to the troubles by playing our violins while everything burns down around us.  Another course of action is to get angry and try to take our frustrations out on all or anyone that we deem responsible.  The course of action that seems to be the most prudent is to be a positive force of change in this world of increasing darkness.  Some think, as in the current political climate, that by electing a new leader things will be brought back to some level of sanity.  While this may come about in appearance, electing a new leader does not change the underlying malaise and corruption, avarice and indifference that surrounds us on an increasing scale.  This poem alludes to what may be the answer.

Where we can make a difference is in our personal lives and in those we come in contact with.  One aspect of that is to be the best advocate of service and care in a world that is increasingly looking at people as mere representations of numbers and dollars.  By maintaining the continued dignity of each person we come in contact with we bring about a positive influence that in turn can go on to effect others.  We can see how we interact with our coworkers, customers, friends and family members.  By connecting heart to heart in a positive way we increase the light that will eventually lead us all out of the darkness that so threatens to overwhelm us in these troubled times.

The Bahá'í message of love and unity is one that I believe in my heart will be that positive force of change to this world.  As Bahí'í's we share this message with each and everyone we can and offer the information for each person to do with as they please.   We have done our job by informing people of this message.  It is a receptive message as it is fundamentally found in each and every faith.  I have travelled to many countries and interacted with many people of a wide and diverse background.  What I have seen is that when asked person to person we all feel that war is obsolete and no longer acceptable.   We believe to kill is wrong.  We believe that all come from the same creator and have been longing to live in peace and harmony with each other.  What divides us now are the arcane and corrupted power structures that have maintained their power by dividing mankind into separate groups and by instilling a false sense of superiority of one group over another.  We are, each and every living soul, one family and have one common Creator.  I have faith that it won't be long, maybe not in my lifetime, before we come to our sanity as a people and bring about the peace, love and harmony that we all long for.