Hillol Ray

REVERENCE FOR LIFE

The despair and desolation engulf our hidden emotions
Like an ebb tide in the sea –
And keep our lives afloat in troubled waters
By turning around the happiness key!
The dawn of civilizations has been a key witness to such turbulence
Since the histories of the past –
And brings the memoirs still today, for continuity in next millennium
But that may not be the last!

Worse ‘holocausts’ and bloody wars of the twentieth century
Depict the inhumanity and abuse of brutal force –
While walking down the memory lanes to remind our despair,
Next to paving new millennium’s only course!
But suddenly the expectation of a glorious awakening
Now tickles my brain with a “civil sense” of mass –
To honor the dawn of the new millennium as the holy gate
Through which the nobility has to really pass!

Restrictive power comes from the imposition of laws
That pretends to robotize the present mankind –
And creates an anguish through the disappearance of “devotional love”
That does not put us in bind!
The “true soul” of man should be the product of education and freedom,
Instead of the restrictive claws –
To enable the rapid progress in the next millennium,
And eliminate the visible pasts’ damaging “flaws”!

Now, democracy, lost to money grabber politicians,
Has created a ‘reign of corruption’ over so many lands –
While the strong political power moves only among the cronies
With time via a ‘mutual’ shaking of hands!
The fruits of such transfers of power leave nothing but the bitterness
In the mouths of the million factions –
And are now sobbing for the meritocracy in the next millennium
In lieu of the democracy’s selfish actions!

At present, I dream to see piling of fraternity, freedom, and humanity
From the past millenniums to the new –
And build a bridge of love and fellowship to promote human rights
For the forthcoming generations to view!
Surely the task is not easy and will need engraved emotions as building block
Buried in each soul around the Earth –
But still we can explore the only possibility through ‘reverence for life’
Drenched with brutality, sacrifice and mirth!