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
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