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-DEE-
Junior Member

since 1999-10-29

Posts 14
SOUTH AFRICA

0 posted 2002-02-10 12:51 PM

I breath - do you?
Each breath - my right or a gift?
My right, as it is yours?
A gift, as it sustains life -
Life being a gift given by our Creator.

I hurt - do you?
Do you too feel the sting
of a cruel word;
the anguish of a malicious action?

And love - do you know it too?
It's tenderness; it's passion;
it's warmth; it's friendship;
it's devotion....

I am of flesh and blood.
My flesh - it may wound;
and from that wound warm, wet, red blood may flow.
That wound may burn.
Is it the same with you?

Then would it be correct to say
that we are created in one likeness -
yet each with our unique characteristics
that allows us to be identified at individuals.
Individuals - who breath to sustain life.
Individuals - who hurt, who love.
Individuals wrapped up in a complexity of emotions;
a psyche that constitutes us Human.

Then, as Humans, should we not accept one another as individuals
and together strive to protect and uphold our Human Rights,
as one.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2002-02-10 01:07 PM

Human needs are universal,
we've the capacity to love and bleed.
Gifts are given and taken away.
We can only strive to be the
very best we can be.

It's just another day in paradise.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2002-02-10 02:40 PM

Dee,
How very true, and well written.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Ethan Halo
Senior Member

since 2000-04-28

Posts 793
on the roof again

3 posted 2002-02-10 03:43 PM

if only we all thought like this.

"There he goes.
One of god's own prototypes.
Some mutated experiment never
considered for mass production.
Too strange to live.
Too rare to die."

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

4 posted 2002-02-10 06:40 PM

Well written with a great message...

Thank you for posting this!

~Tier

strbbux
Member Elite

since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

5 posted 2002-02-10 06:43 PM

Dee, truer words were never spoken, there is so much truth in this piece, I read and savored each word, as my friend is going through a rough time with prejudice, this was very meaningful to me. thank you.

floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

-DEE-
Junior Member

since 1999-10-29

Posts 14
SOUTH AFRICA

6 posted 2002-02-10 11:24 PM

Thank you all for your comments..
This is something I feel very strongly about.

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