World Day Against Racism

You asked me the other day, my friend, who I am and I replied: I am you in another body! Yes, it is true, Look, how much the same we are, No matter what, the color The creed The race The status Look, I am born and I die I suffer and I enjoy I love and I 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 is my 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. Tell me, My brother, My friend, My ally, Why do we have to oppose, To fight To hurt To destroy and To eliminate One another? Are our seas really that narrow, Our oceans that small, Our lands so limited To contain all of us? Or Is it the case that Our hearts are not big enough And our minds not so wide-open to Enfold all mankind? Listen to me, my other self: It is up to us to change this world We have inherited, with its virtues and vices, History and culture Flaws and merits And Try to make it Better Nobler Kinder and more caring By obliterating harmful beliefs, Demolishing injurious divisions, Destroying detrimental distrust, Annihilating racism and eradicating The erroneous feeling of poisonous superiority For To bring the dawn of a new loving world, A world of acceptance Of respect Of justice Of equality Of love and Of universal brotherhood So as With peace in our hearts, liberated we would be From the past’s deleterious tribulations That for myriads of years, Have kept us, fighting one another! © Demetrios Trifiatis 21 MARCH 2015 Copyright © Demetrios Trifiatis | Year Posted 2015 NOTE! Today because of the “ World Day Against Racism” my moral duty, couldn’t let me stay away! This poem of mine is an old poem of 2013 that has been edited and improved today thus it is posted now as a new poem! * I did this for all my friends who wish me to come back. I will come back when I am ready! Thank you for your love!