It is quite evident that the world today teems with all types of atrocities, hostilities and despotisms. It is rather cofusing to see that the most advanced and sophisticated inventions and artefacts ar being used for human discomfort, misery and pain. Many people are killed coldbloodedly, many innocent children are kidnapped, women are raped or abducted. Let us look back in human history; and ask ourselves "when in the history of mankind the world was pested with such voluminous collection of crimes, sins, felonies, etc. ?
I suppose the whole world was shocked by the news of the church blast in Alexandria, Egypt. Although I am Muslim, I was dismayed by the news. According to my religion, if you kill one pereson on no retaliation basis, you are judged as the murderer of the entire mankind. Apart from that, why should innocent and peaceful Coptic worshippers be murdered, injured or tortured? This also means, nobody is secure. No religion anywhere or at any time would require its worshippers to attack or kill other faith believers.
May the souls of the blast victims rest in peace, and the souls of their killers be tortured and scourged in life and cast forever in hell after life. Here is a poem in which I tried to voice my exasperation:
What a pity, there is too little compassion in our world
There’re few friends to turn to when calamity’s unfurled
Poets see the bright face of fate, but fail to depict misery
Their romanticism is no sin, yet they often slip into reverie
How come too many men have turned into fearful hounds
Spreading pounding pain, as man’s blood floods grounds
Why do brothers kill one another, sons of Adam and Eve
God has created our hearts so as to love and not to grieve
If most men were romantic poets, we all would live in peace
All people would be friends, and all hostilities would cease.
Ottawa International Poets and Writers for human Rights (OIPWHR)
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