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.
1 Comments:
So true. . . once again the muse speaks with such clarity.
We are one family.
Love to you, dear brother.
Aniela
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