The world is divided
By divisive forces…
Governments
Create borders
And political maps
Religion
Divides on
Communal lines
Races
Use
Ethnicity
Money
Creates differences
On the basis of wealth
Power
Divides the weak
From the strong
Love demolishes
Dividing lines
And, builds unity
All we need
Is one religion
Called ‘God’
All we need
Is one nation
Called ‘The World’
All we need
Is one community
Called ‘The Human Race’
If we throw out
Money and power
And all other divisive forces….
From the face
Of this earth,
We may get to taste
The real meaning of Unity,
Equality,
Harmony
And, prosperity
© Vincent Van Ross
Excerpt form the book “Divided Lines – A Poet’s Stance”
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Foreword . . .
In a world of ever increasing advances seemingly created to make our lives easier to manage, envisioned to bring us together, to draw us closer, we are still in many instances isolated and at odds and validly apart. Something is missing, there is a snag, a rip, a hole in the spiritual fabric that we all see; yet we continue to fail to address.
It has been said by self-proclaimed philosophers, theologians, scholars’ and politicians that the abuse of words can be a danger, there are those that believe words are a leading factor in what ills our society. Of this we do not deny in full, there have been abuses, history is but a melody to that fact, yet it is also true that words have the innate capacity to bridge, to heal that which divides.
Opinions, views, religions, nations, people, even love divides. The focus of this book and the poets here in, is to give breath to a wide range of issues both small and controversial that lie beneath the surface. Things that we are often hesitant to discuss. In saying that, I will offer that the role of a poet is not to persuade or to add more rhetoric to the static we hear. A poet’s responsibility is to shine the light of awareness, to create a platform for dialogue, for healing, to gather up the images in an attempt to understand what we see.
Demitri Tyler, Author
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