I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world. ~ Socrates.
I am not one thing or another, I am not only one person but of a people, I am not here nor there but if needed I can be anywhere.
In life it is easy to subject others to your views, to your wants, to your ideas but it is undeniably hard to subject yourself to theirs.
In a world so large and unyielding its hard to see that your own kin would be harder to understand than strangers but that is mostly true.
I started this blog on the assumption that those who read it would understand a bit more about me, or at least would come to know a bit of what and how I think.
See what is most important to me has never been to fit in but to understand why I do not fit in.
In times of war and anguish the object of the game seems to fit neatly into a category so that everyone can make assumptions about your cause but that cannot be true in a time where most people are not homogeneous, are not one thing or another but a mixture of the world. Being static is no longer an option. Movement is key both in mind and body.
I am opposed to alot of things and stances but I am most opposed to one of closed mindedness. I have always wanted a few things clarified about myself that I will note today,
I am parts of many communities but have never been obliged to join any because DNA should be the only prerequisite, not your stance on any issue or ritual because ultimately the basis of ethnicity and nationality are determined at conception and not birth. I do not choose who I belong to, it was chosen for me, and ultimately the only person I want to own me is eternally unavailable for clarification until Judgement Day.
These past weeks have shown me that for alot of people contribution to community and family is something that they note through money, time and exclusivity rather than feeling, birth and love. That is to me quite unsettling because regardless of any of those things, belonging is not something that I would choose on a tally system. Denial of someones birthright does not come at a convenience to anyone, it does not come because of a difference of opinion and it certainly does not come from the removal of association for a few years.
My race, my religion, my multiple ethnicity's may not be normal to you but it is my reality and before you comment on anyone's sense of community educate yourself on their background, you may find more than your looking for.
Remembrance of a person can come from a fleeting moment, to a second, from a minute and certainly from a lifetime of moments.
A few untruths can never break a bond that was cemented at birth, but it can certainly cloud your judgement of a person.
Remember to find out why a person is unlike you before you cast them aside.
29.7.09
18.7.09
Plea.
To denounce violence is to keep those close to you safe. To denounce violence is to keep those close to you alive. To denounce violence is to allow everyone the ability to choose their own fate.
By taking up a weapon you give no one a fighting chance, you take away their life not only at the cost of theirs but many others. See when you seek to end some one's chances of fighting back, you end the ability for all of us to fight back. When you take some one's life because of a weapon you are ruining much more than one life, you are ruining the chance for peace for everyone.
When you took his life, you took mine, you took all of ours.
So help me, help him, by helping you. See I know that whoever you are,you understand what you did and that nothing will rest with you until you come forward and take responsibility for the violence you committed. You know that by taking his life you have severed yours as well, because how can you live with this on your conscience?
We seek not to harm you, because he himself denounced violence by holding true to Gandhi's words. We are not looking to blind ourselves, we are looking to see clearly and hear clearly, so that we may live on to carry his memory forward.
The strength it took to take his life is nothing compared to what its going to take to come forward and accept your due, but it can be done, and if you would at least make amends then we can move forward.
The chance exists for you to change your life's course...as you have changed his.
Denounce violence by taking your life in your own hands, try and save yourself in the greater picture.
God shall see your actions on earth and determine your fate in the hereafter so do not take your actions lightly.
As they say it takes a village to raise a child, and as we have raised him, we have raised you, so allow us to help you, we must show you right from wrong before this seeps further into your life and you destroy another life.
By taking up a weapon you give no one a fighting chance, you take away their life not only at the cost of theirs but many others. See when you seek to end some one's chances of fighting back, you end the ability for all of us to fight back. When you take some one's life because of a weapon you are ruining much more than one life, you are ruining the chance for peace for everyone.
When you took his life, you took mine, you took all of ours.
So help me, help him, by helping you. See I know that whoever you are,you understand what you did and that nothing will rest with you until you come forward and take responsibility for the violence you committed. You know that by taking his life you have severed yours as well, because how can you live with this on your conscience?
We seek not to harm you, because he himself denounced violence by holding true to Gandhi's words. We are not looking to blind ourselves, we are looking to see clearly and hear clearly, so that we may live on to carry his memory forward.
The strength it took to take his life is nothing compared to what its going to take to come forward and accept your due, but it can be done, and if you would at least make amends then we can move forward.
The chance exists for you to change your life's course...as you have changed his.
Denounce violence by taking your life in your own hands, try and save yourself in the greater picture.
God shall see your actions on earth and determine your fate in the hereafter so do not take your actions lightly.
As they say it takes a village to raise a child, and as we have raised him, we have raised you, so allow us to help you, we must show you right from wrong before this seeps further into your life and you destroy another life.
2.7.09
Detonation.
Detonation,
screaming,
fire,
Noise.
Light in the distance,
crowds gathered in the city,
waiting in anticapation,
for something anything to happen.
A girl who ran away from the crowd,
screaming for her mother,
frantic parents,
searching for their child.
Sirens,
Police barracades,
Roads closed,
People watching t.v. late at night.
Pandemonium breaks out,
in the crowd,
around the t.v.,
in the streets.
Noone knows what going on...
It's a protest,
it's a child lost,
It's an assasination,
No, its just Canada Day Fireworks across the City, across the country.
See the great thing about being Canadian is that we don't have to imagine the worst, we can have all that anticipation for something less than gunshots, less than bombs and still have the freedom to fight for what we believe.
Being Canadian is great, don't forget it.
screaming,
fire,
Noise.
Light in the distance,
crowds gathered in the city,
waiting in anticapation,
for something anything to happen.
A girl who ran away from the crowd,
screaming for her mother,
frantic parents,
searching for their child.
Sirens,
Police barracades,
Roads closed,
People watching t.v. late at night.
Pandemonium breaks out,
in the crowd,
around the t.v.,
in the streets.
Noone knows what going on...
It's a protest,
it's a child lost,
It's an assasination,
No, its just Canada Day Fireworks across the City, across the country.
See the great thing about being Canadian is that we don't have to imagine the worst, we can have all that anticipation for something less than gunshots, less than bombs and still have the freedom to fight for what we believe.
Being Canadian is great, don't forget it.
Sorcerer
No more fairy tales.
No more tales period.
See our history together was a fairytale,
and once I thought I was cast as Princess,
with a sideline to be Queen.
Irregardless of circumstance,
I have been your wife,
your partner,
your magician.
There is no drama left,
no text messages to be seen,
no late nights to be wondering where you are,
no one I care to know about.
The spell has unworked itself,
the story has lost its meaning,
the end is elusive,
but its there surrounded by lost dreams and memories.
See I tried to make your dreams come true,
but you cannot even partake in my daydreams.
The silence of our story resonates now.
Those we cannot tell,
those who cannot see,
those who wish it weren't there at all.
Our fairytale is just that,
a tale that unfortunately is devoid of a fairy.
She isn't coming,
but she's waiting for you out there,
only you know what she looks like.
So take the book,
the next pages are empty,
my magic is done,
my spells aren't working...
I guess I've lost hold of the magic.
~ N.L.
No more tales period.
See our history together was a fairytale,
and once I thought I was cast as Princess,
with a sideline to be Queen.
Irregardless of circumstance,
I have been your wife,
your partner,
your magician.
There is no drama left,
no text messages to be seen,
no late nights to be wondering where you are,
no one I care to know about.
The spell has unworked itself,
the story has lost its meaning,
the end is elusive,
but its there surrounded by lost dreams and memories.
See I tried to make your dreams come true,
but you cannot even partake in my daydreams.
The silence of our story resonates now.
Those we cannot tell,
those who cannot see,
those who wish it weren't there at all.
Our fairytale is just that,
a tale that unfortunately is devoid of a fairy.
She isn't coming,
but she's waiting for you out there,
only you know what she looks like.
So take the book,
the next pages are empty,
my magic is done,
my spells aren't working...
I guess I've lost hold of the magic.
~ N.L.
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