Tonight, driving past the Statehouse,
we saw two groups on opposite sides,
each one holding up signs of their homeland,
each one chanting loudly with passion.
One side a white flag with blue stripes and star,
the other black-white-green-striped with red triangle,
One side with women showing their hair,
the other with hair underneath a scarf.
Their nations are at war, killing each other,
but we all live here in Columbia.
We all have children who wish to be loved,
we all worship God Who created the world,
Did He not create us all?
Did he build this wall, or did we?
Perhaps He built steps for us all to climb,
We start at the bottom, walk higher and higher,
then meet one another, across the top.
What do we do? Start down the other side?
Aren’t we all human? Can we not stay alive
on this earth that we all walk upon?
We don’t have to agree on everything,
we can call God by different names,
We just have to agree to see each other as H-U-M-A-N.
It’s really not that hard to do.
But when we allow hate to overturn love,
We become lower than the animal.
Animals do not kill because of hate,
They kill in order to survive.
One Sun in the sky,
One Moon at night,
One planet we live and die together on.
As for me, I want all children to live,
all children to have no fear,
all children to be with their families,
all children to survive.
cfblack 10-17-2023
“In short, for a few days we live on this earth and eventually we are buried in it, it is our eternal tomb. Is it worthwhile that we should engage in bloodshed and tear one another to pieces for this eternal tomb?” ~~ ‘Abdu’l-Baha
Doctor Grandma 