Non Violence or Pacifism

While people continue to erect walls of separation within their hearts and minds as well as on the ground, we find that we have forgotten to be human beings first and foremost. To be human is to belong to each other as one race.

The greatest need is to remind ourselves that as one people we are strong. As one people we are clever. As one people we can care for each other. There are greater threats to our planet that only together can we start to tackle.

To those who would remain separated and wish to raise their hand in violence I would say only this. Every blow you strike is a blow against your brother, your sister, your son, you daughter. Is it them that you would kill?

Of the 99 names of Allah, not one is for vengeance...I wonder why?

The Pacifist

You wonder why I’m a Pacifist
when you see such grief and pain
you wonder that I’m a Pacifist
with so many sights like these;
as the missiles deep booming,
roar and crump, flash and burn
killing your friends at your side
their pleading eyes, and rasping
last breath before their eyes dim.
And still you wonder I’m a Pacifist.

Is my mind really so weird
when I would see it all end?
I would not deprive the sick
the medicines that they need
nor would I murder the young
nor orphan, nor widow them,
nor would I devise explosions
to bereave whole families at once.

So who is the crank here?
Who peppers the clusters,
those bright infant deaths;
and who forms the craters
where once a car drove by,
and whose indiscriminate
destruction is seen here?
And who fills the graveyards
with weeping and wailing…so
who is the crazy one here?
And you wonder I’m a Pacifist!

David © 30th December 2008