Come My Brother
COME, MY BROTHER,
You asked me the other day, my friend, who
I am
I replied: I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true
Look how much the same we are,
No matter what the color, creed, race, and status.
Look, I am born and die, suffer and enjoy, love and hate just
Like you!
I am a father, a brother, a son, a mother, a sister, a daughter just
Like you.
Happiness I seek, family to raise I wish, peace to find I look for just
Like you.
I yearn, I abhor, I fear, I hope, I bleed, I heal just
Like you.
I believe, I doubt, I accept, I refuse, I laugh, I cry just
Like you.
We are alike, we are the same, we are brothers, children of
A unique father.
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Why have we:
To oppose, to fight, to hurt, to destroy, to eliminate
One another?
Are really our seas that narrow, the oceans that small, the lands so
Limited to contain all of us?
Or
Is it the case that our hearts are not big enough and our minds are not
Wide open to enfold all mankind?
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Listen to me, my brother,
It is up to us, to change this world we have inherited, with its:
Virtues and vices, history and culture, sins and merits and
Try to make it a better, nobler, kinder, and more caring world
By
Obliterating harmful beliefs,
Demolishing injurious divisions,
Destroying detrimental distrust
For to
Bring forth the dawn of a new loving world,
A world of acceptance, respect, justice, and of
Universal brotherhood
So as
With peace in our hearts, liberated would we be
From the past’s deleterious tribulations
That
For myriads of years, have kept apart!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
24 OCTOBER 2013
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