“They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and
none shall make
them afraid." ( The Bible Micah4.4)
"He who
walks in peace, walk with him." (The Koran, Sura
48)
My Arab sister, daughter of Abraham,
Let us build a sturdy bridge
From my orange world to yours,
Above the boiling pain of acid rain -
And hold human hands high
Full of free stars of twinkling peace.
I do not want to be your oppressor
You do not want to be my oppressor,
Or your jailer, or my jailer,
We do not want to make each other afraid
Under our vines and under our fig trees
Blossoming on a silvered horizon
Above the bruising and the bleeding
Of poisoned gases and scuds.
So, my Arab sister, let’s build a strong
Bridge of jasmine understanding
Where each shall sit with her baby
Under her vine and under her fig tree -
And none shall make them afraid
And none shall make them afraid!
--
Myopic Scientist
With green eyes like legend woods
before burning,
waving and sweeping
like sky rockets
You are created
for exploring and building,
for love and science and joy
on peaceful green earth
not to burn, not to destroy our hopes
with nuclear bombs
and radiation
Dear scientist, don't let the war merchants
steal your
research, your unaware souls,
your creation,
your bubbling myopic brains.
All our voices radiate in fear
all our violins
sing our impending requiem
brewed in your stupendous high-tech labs.
Dear scientist, let our wings flap freely
in fresh, clean breeze in the spring and in the fall
before we fall into the
atrocious nuclear winter brewed in your
stupendous reactors before they blow up
as in
Dear scientist, don't allow the war mongers
to gobble up your inventions to fatten their
stomachs
for star wars
and earth wars
or for any, any uncivil civil war.
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