No man can cage freedom’s light,
No violent state can destroy hope,
The sacred blood of children,
Those who shed it are the ******,
Beauty and peace shall come,
Their song will be liberty’s dance.

The message was not racism and slavery,
The message was not lies and daily news fakery,

The message was not war and plunder,
The message was not hate and ******,

The message was not walls and invasions,
The message was not hypocrisy and devastation,

The message was not flags and borders,
The message was not chaos and disorder,

The message was not hot cross buns and chocolate bunnies,
The message was not idols and money,

The message was family and humanity,
The message was love and unity.

Love,
Humanity,
and Unity
is what our world weeps for,

Remember Hope,
Remember Peace,
Remember Compassion.

Time is friend to no man,

And those who delay being with the source of warmth that nursed and loved them,
They will learn the lesson of tears and grief when the hour becomes cold.

In this day of the internet, mobile phones, and apps to communicate,
We are the most emotionally cold and remote of all societies in the history of the human race.

If you have a Mother, and she is still alive, be there for her,
Forget work, forget friends, forget the merry-go-round,
Pause your life for a moment and seek out the embrace of your Mother.

Domestic Violence...

Those who perpetrate this crime are ****,
Those who turn a blind eye to it are society's social ****,
Those who defend it on cultural grounds are ****,
Those who use religion to hide the crime are ****,
Those who inflict guilt and shame upon the victim are ****,
Those who shelter and protect the perpetrators are ****,
Those who pass laws and then fail to help the victims are ****,
Those who gag and degrade the victims are ****,
****,
****,
****.

Whether you are a person of faith,
Or no faith,

Whether you are from North,
South,
East,
Or West,

Whether you lean Right-Wing,
Or Left-Wing,

Whether you are Rich,
Or Poor,

Whether you are Black,
Or White,

Whether you are Here,
There,
And Everywhere,

One thing NEVER EVER changes…
The way MAN controls WOMAN,

From the moment a girl is born,
People run around,
Society comes calling,
Elders come pointing,
All seeking to lay a word here
And a word there,

A Woman is constantly under pressure,
She is ordered around,
Manipulated by friends and foe,
Made to feel guilty and inferior,
Told to wear this and that,
Held behind as Men progress,

I say one thing and it is this:

Let a Woman have REAL CHOICE,

And those who dare to point fingers,
I say to them look to your own lives,

My faith is Humanity,
Not Man made insanity,

The light of the Beloved glows on all,
Seek compassion,
And be at peace.

Today, far away from the headlines,
In the distant cover of sand and media oblivion,
A nation is targeting the orphans of forgotten villages,
The average age of the culled population is seventeen.

One of the world’s most advanced military war machines
Is daily incinerating the flowers of a deleted generation,
Whole areas reduced to smoking rubble and jagged bones,
This is a butcher’s paradise where schools are turned into abattoirs.

This genocide has been silenced by the complicit newsrooms,
Those who dare to speak out are condemned as traitors to patriotism,
Politicians and world speakers dance the sermon of inhuman lies,
All the while the children have their lives and dreams bled out of them.

In a hospital that was pulverized by an American gifted missile,
Little two-year old Maha clings to what remains of her fractured life,
Her glazed eyes are circled black like a Panda’s patches
Because shrapnel made a home inside her skull and spine.