From Treat to Threat

 From Treat to Threat

 

A destiny that history complicates,

Rooted in doubt and prejudice,

Europa a fair one,

Nubia a grand backdrop,

The golden sands of the desert,

The marble glaciers of the poles,

The verdant bloom of the savannah,

The melodies of the birds,

The blue waves that ride over waters,

A belongingness,

Where women and men,

Are the proud players,

In organic renewal

And not abuse,

That is the lifetime call,

Unless horrors are owned,

All those silences and numbness,

Like drying hanging linen,

A reckoning whose utterances,

Are mostly traded with foam,

Sometimes spittle around the mouth,

About a people whose presence,

Is a treat,

or threat,

Pain lies hidden in the shadows,

There is a writer and composer,

Who exploits and make a profit,

Out of conflagration and strife,

The peacemaker and a charismatic,

Ridiculed and laughed at,

Grace and diligence thereof,

Choristers and protesters,

Singing “we shall overcome,”

Are heard and seen,

On streets and squares,

Only to be bludgeoned and violated,

The treat of liberty,

The very threat of dignity,

And hence the complicated cycle of relations

Turns and revolves on and on,

But we are instruments of diversity,

Each of us brings pieces,

To the universe of humanity,

In place of ferocity and precariousness,

Promote opportunity for dignity,

An inheritance to which we all belong.