One Voice

a generation

NOW

the same air and earth
one corner of the globe
to another

its a shame that we pray
for those massacred in mosques
near oil pipelines in Iraq

where acres are stolen
barley
barely
growing

children do not need to go to heaven yet

circles intersect
like pipedreams

it seems so simple
like wishes blown
off of childrens lips
rising as a dandelion crown
spirits vanish
into thin air

gardens
of
afterlife

evicted
confiscated


death
is human
by origin

brothers and sisters
we are storming graveyards
each stone lain
across this great divide

OUR human family

and i twist my hair
in the direction
of the earths rotation
spinning off its axis

OUR ancestors whisper
as fireflames rise to the sky
a nomadic war cry 
volcanic
thunderous

a belting tsunami
rising, rising
like blood boiled
over
and
over
and
over

and when will we realize

that WE

are all

ONE.


© Susan Marie, Nooruddin Jalal, Obaidullah Baheer, Rose Salley, Sohaib Rahman, Michele Rose 2010