Post by FireGuy on Sept 8, 2006 22:36:56 GMT -5
Listen well, my child
For all things have changed
And I have a new lesson that you should hear.
Forget for now the tales of joy,
the tales of magic and mystery and dance
that I showered upon you during our childhoods.
You must learn about the hater who hates us.
The hater who hates us
Does not want you to be his slave,
He wants you to be his slave
Before he kills you.
Don’t cover your ears, my precious one, from the horror
That I now teach.
Open your eyes.
See the the towers that once stood tall
and understand what it means that they have fallen.
The hater who hates us
Is not envious of our possessions.
He does not want to steal them for himself—
He wants only to take them from us.
He does not want to live your life,
Or be free and guiltless like you.
He envies only your guiltless smile.
The hater who hates us
Tells himself that he is pure before God
While we are evil, worldly, sinful and impure.
He tells himself
It is his duty to rid the world of us.
The hater who hates us cannot build
Our beautiful buildings
Our clean society,
Our wired and wireless world,
Our highways
And the wonderful accomplishment
That is you—the person you have made.
Our creed says happiness is possible
In this world, in this life—
Today and now.
His creed is to destroy our creed
And bring the world to decay and decline.
You go to dinner—he hides in caves.
You dance and smile—he seethes at your sinfulness
You wear new and bright colors—he wears drab sheets
You proclaim happiness—he wants life to be pain and suffering
You smile and laugh—he hates your joy.
You try to persuade—he points a gun
You trade—he bombs
You create—he hates
You build for the future—he thinks he will go to heaven by destroying your future
And what do we give the world?
We give it freedom
Not force.
We give it rights
Not duties.
We give it accomplishment
Not envy.
We are life and joy
That’s what the hater who hates us hates.
That’s what he wants to kill.
There is a lesson that fell upon us
From times quite long ago.
A man on horseback with sword raised high
Yelled, “This God is our God.
And in His Name
We must destroy impurity,
Kill all who do not cower before the sword.”
Today, what he considered evil is our good.
Today, he is the hater who hates us.
How can there be peace
When the hater who hates us
Must kill us in the name of God?
And now you ask, my precious child,
“Father, why do you teach
what does not ring of life?
You’ve taught me only laughter
and gave me only hope.”
My child, you are young,
but I have seen a thousand deaths and cried a thousand tears….
That came from long ago and far away.
But after our day of infamy
My tears are here and now, today.
And you must understand what you have seen…
I had hoped to leave a better world…
I had hoped you would never know…
I had hoped we had rid the world
of the hater who hates us.
We must find our joy together
And we must regain our hope
So that we can smile again and see,
That the hater who hates us
Is only part of history.
This is our task in this our world
by Roberto Diego
For all things have changed
And I have a new lesson that you should hear.
Forget for now the tales of joy,
the tales of magic and mystery and dance
that I showered upon you during our childhoods.
You must learn about the hater who hates us.
The hater who hates us
Does not want you to be his slave,
He wants you to be his slave
Before he kills you.
Don’t cover your ears, my precious one, from the horror
That I now teach.
Open your eyes.
See the the towers that once stood tall
and understand what it means that they have fallen.
The hater who hates us
Is not envious of our possessions.
He does not want to steal them for himself—
He wants only to take them from us.
He does not want to live your life,
Or be free and guiltless like you.
He envies only your guiltless smile.
The hater who hates us
Tells himself that he is pure before God
While we are evil, worldly, sinful and impure.
He tells himself
It is his duty to rid the world of us.
The hater who hates us cannot build
Our beautiful buildings
Our clean society,
Our wired and wireless world,
Our highways
And the wonderful accomplishment
That is you—the person you have made.
Our creed says happiness is possible
In this world, in this life—
Today and now.
His creed is to destroy our creed
And bring the world to decay and decline.
You go to dinner—he hides in caves.
You dance and smile—he seethes at your sinfulness
You wear new and bright colors—he wears drab sheets
You proclaim happiness—he wants life to be pain and suffering
You smile and laugh—he hates your joy.
You try to persuade—he points a gun
You trade—he bombs
You create—he hates
You build for the future—he thinks he will go to heaven by destroying your future
And what do we give the world?
We give it freedom
Not force.
We give it rights
Not duties.
We give it accomplishment
Not envy.
We are life and joy
That’s what the hater who hates us hates.
That’s what he wants to kill.
There is a lesson that fell upon us
From times quite long ago.
A man on horseback with sword raised high
Yelled, “This God is our God.
And in His Name
We must destroy impurity,
Kill all who do not cower before the sword.”
Today, what he considered evil is our good.
Today, he is the hater who hates us.
How can there be peace
When the hater who hates us
Must kill us in the name of God?
And now you ask, my precious child,
“Father, why do you teach
what does not ring of life?
You’ve taught me only laughter
and gave me only hope.”
My child, you are young,
but I have seen a thousand deaths and cried a thousand tears….
That came from long ago and far away.
But after our day of infamy
My tears are here and now, today.
And you must understand what you have seen…
I had hoped to leave a better world…
I had hoped you would never know…
I had hoped we had rid the world
of the hater who hates us.
We must find our joy together
And we must regain our hope
So that we can smile again and see,
That the hater who hates us
Is only part of history.
This is our task in this our world
by Roberto Diego
