We carry their hearts

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“They want us to be afraid.

They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.

They want us to barricade our doors

and hide our children.

Their aim is to make us fear life itself!

They want us to hate.

They want us to hate 'the other'.

They want us to practice aggression

and perfect antagonism.

Their aim is to divide us all!

They want us to be inhuman.

They want us to throw out our kindness.

They want us to bury our love

and burn our hope.

Their aim is to take all our light!

They think their bricked walls

will separate us.

They think their damned bombs

will defeat us.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that my soul and your soul are old friends.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that when they cut you I bleed.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that we will never be afraid,

we will never hate

and we will never be silent

for life is ours!”

― Kamand Kojouri

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here is the deepest secret nobody knows…

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) (ee cummings)

it is also true, that you carry mine in yours

we are bound you and I

whether I know you, or not

whether I like you or not

or understand you

we are bound together regardless of race, or culture

or creed

education or standing

nationality

we are bound together by something older than the foundation of the world

something deeper that the greatest depth in the sea

we are bound together that that which carries us both

and compels us to communion

Oh we can deny it

And those in power often do

They foster fear, feed hate

Promote division

Build walls (or try to)

And seek expulsion, or even eradication

In anger some pick up guns, and kill

Or place guns in the hands of others

We are all too good at denying our bond

Denying that we all carry some of the Sacred in us

And so are brothers and sister

Bound together

But in that denial we deny ourselves

We exclude ourselves

We isolate our selves

You have only to look in the eyes

Those tight, angry eyes ( you know of whom I speak)

To know this truth

To know the pain that comes

From such a refutation of our very nature

It is hard not be afraid

It is near impossible to avoid hate

And we are often cowed into silence

But our brothers and sisters, dying on the streets of America

Hiding in terror under the desks of our schools

Our brothers and sister,

Bleeding in the dust of Gaza

Lying in the rubble in Syria

Call to us

We experience their pain, their fear, their horror

Their deaths

We feel the terror in their breasts

As bullets fly and bombs fall

For we carry their hearts

In our hearts

And so we must say to those who have chosen not to be fully human

Those who have denied their sacred DNA

Those who have closed themselves off, so they do not look

Past themselves

We must say to them, no matter what the cost…

“that we will never be afraid,

we will never hate

and we will never be silent

for life is ours!”