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. - 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? - 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