If we’re One
12 April 2016
They chant it
They say we are One
They clamour
Beat their chests
Take part in social unrests
Yet they eat alone
If we’re One
Why do lines surround
Your being
Your castles
Trees upon which leaf rustles
Asking to be heard
If we’re One
Why does your stack pile
While ours wanes
Tell me now
Last in first out or other
We seem another
If we’re One
Tell me why they growl
Taut bellies
That rumble
The beliefs within crumble
Bleak noise submerges
If we’re One
When you aim at me
Is it Love
That I see
At the tip of pointed gun
A toy illusion
If we’re One
Will your heart recall
All we were
In dreamtime
Will you rise when I will fall
Like waves within sea?
Reading of the poem:
On Love – Khalil Gibran
Reason and passion – Khalil Gibran
Farewell – Khalil Gibran
Geetha Balvannanathan's Blog - Isis Tratum 
“If we’re One
When you aim at me
Is it Love
That I see
At the tip of pointed gun
A toy illusion”
Wow.
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Thank you for your appreciation
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wow Geetha, some really great lines are in this one! I love the premise of this and the question asked over and over again as you cite more poetic proof that we are not in fact one in spirit and we should be.
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Thanks Melinda. Yes we should be but tiringly we resist it
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You’re welcome and right 🙂
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A collection of very important questions, asked with heart in the beautiful matrix of your ability to construct these pieces. Thank you for sharing this, Poetess. I hope you are well! ❤
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Thank you for your beautiful comment Eric. I am well thank you and I hope you are too. Hugs ❤
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There are a lot of hypocrites in this world.
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Very true!
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Definitely one of my favorites of yours, Geetha. Hope you’ve been well. ❤️
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Thank you Annie. I am well thanks and hope you are too ❤️
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A powerful reflection on the cruelty of love, with a last stanza as haunting as the final video
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Thank you Derrick
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Geetha – Khalil Gibran farewell is one of his most powerful poems…I have nothing to add, your words is indeed in its place…
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Thank you Mihran. I like these a lot and the one on children too
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Loved every bit of it dear Geetha! Thank you for sharing that fascinating first photograph! It is just beautiful beyond description! I think I’m in love with it! 🙂
Sending you hugs! ❤
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Thank you Dajena. You are right, it is beautiful beyond description and so ethereal 🙂
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🙂 Thank you for sharing!! 🙂
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Welcome 🙂
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Hugs to you too my friend. This phone cuts the wording I see feom you 😀
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Aww.. well know you are loved! ❤
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