World Family

WORLD FAMILY

The blood of injustice flows in the Street

Many a heart, hath stopped to beat

Man’s inhumanity to man

Surrounding, replete

Hunger, strife, suffering and hatred

Surround us all, unabated

Lashing out we strike one another

Regardless of the fact

We are all brothers

T’is easy to regard each case

Without looking at from where it doth trace

For stirred up we are wan’t to destroy

Regardless of Man, woman, girl or boy

We focus here or there each time

And then move on to another place

Yet another injustice do we face

And yet the source we still

Do not face

As case by case the problems grow

We must not flitter and let go

Our solidarity with each other must show

We are all one family

This fact we must know

What doth heavy on our heart doth weigh

T’s death throws of the old

In decay

And before us the dawning

Of a new day

What can be done in response

Is to remove from us our nonchalance

And to address each others wants

T’is a world in need

Amongst tyranny and greed

We must eliminate these troubles

With all speed

There are no sides in reality

That is not the way

We are meant to be

Everyone suffers together

Both you and me

The solution:

World unity

Living together

As one family

-Shiidon, Nur 166BE, June 2009

Heavy on my heart I look at the suffering in the land of my mother, Iran. I see the death and suffering, the troubles, the strife, the inhumanity of one brother against another. What also is on my mind are the countless other troubles surrounding us. There is trouble in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, South America, North America in your city, my city, it surrounds us. Yet we seem to focus our attention on one thing at a time. I would love to go to each place and hold the hands of each person on either side of any conflict and ask them to see in each others eyes and hearts the kinship they share with each other and me. Where do I go? We are all in this together. I see it in the eyes of a business man who asks me what is happening in Iran. He has no connection with that country in any way yet his eyes are tearing up as he asks me. This is the effect we have on each other. My solution is to make a difference where I am. I have mentioned this over and over in these posts, yet it is the only answer I have. It is to make a difference in my neighborhood. That then effects the community, the city, the state/province, the nation and in the end the World. We must pray for our human family all over the world, we must strive with all we have to spread the message of unity. We must remember that there are many sides to conflict and that all people suffer, those on both sides of a conflict and the rest of us.

I have travelled the world my whole life and one thing I can say for sure in my experience is that we are all much more similar than different. We can focus on the ridiculous differences that include the culture and habits that stem from where we are from or focus instead on the loves, wants, needs and desires we all have and share in common. I am American. I am Persian. These are the accidents or bounties of my birth. However, I am also Asian, African....I am human. We are truly all one family and one people.

I pray for all those suffering currently in Iran, but also for those suffering all over our planet in hopes that the message of unity spreads fast and deep within all of our hearts. In my own way I will do my part.