The Book About Us Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

In this book
Let's lose our identities
Fold our expectations
And delete our achievements
Let not attachments be our shackles
Let us be humanity
With our many faces
Let us form a new song
With our many races
Let us unite under the tree of life
With our hearts
Let us form a ribbon of Love
With our Love
Let's create a caring and loving nation
With our nation
Let us be under one roof of consciousness
With our consciousness
Let's create a utopia
An oasis of being
Where peace is a nest
Love is the fabric
And hope is the branch
We can all be nourished under one spirit
And have the fulfilment of not one life time but eternity
We can all stand on the pages of history
Not as numbers in statistics books
But as humanity
Not as poor and rich
But as us
We can close the chapters of this book
With the following words
I love you
Not because you have fed or clothed me
But because you are the fibre of my being
Together we are the womb
That conceives the threads
That we call our reality
Let us pray together
Under the dome of Silence
Holding each other
With the ribbon of Love

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