Poems

Let's Unite

In this beautiful/gorgeous world/earth
In this one world
We live apart/ We are disconnected
We are alone/lonely/isolated (We live in isolation)
Like the fingers of hand
Like the rays of sun
The land/soil/earth under our feet
Is the same land/soil (We stand on the same land/soil)
But we are apart/cut off from eachother
Like black stones
Like yellow leaves
We don’t have a shared/common culture
We don’t have a shared/common religion
Let alone a common language/tongue
We (even) don’t have a common literature
 It was one/single world/planet
(but) we drew lines in it (made borders)
There was beauty beauty all around
(but) we made lines/scars on it/ disfigured it
We measured/scaled it
We metered it/sized it with yards and half yard
We split/chopped it
We divided/sliced it (among us)
Some was taken/seized by Hindustan (India)
Some was grabbed/snatched by Pakistan
Some was captured/occupied by Russia and China
Some was taken/seized by (in the name of) colour (race/ethnicity) and
religion
Some was colonized/captured by America
Some was seized/conquered by Africa
Some people from the lower lands,
built Australia
Some people form the upper lands,
Built/forged Britain
But in short, this world/earth
Was divided by time into seven (parts/pieces)
Some said it was divided/fractured by culture
Some said it was divided/fragmented by water
By God, I don’t know/understand
That who and who partitioned/divided it
(There were) people like me and you
And (it was) I and you (who) divided/fractured it
We drew lines/borders in it
We (first) separated/severed hearts in it (from eachother)
We separated languages/tongues
And then we segregated/separated nations/peoples (from eachother)
We lived together (initially/in the past)
Then we separated/partitioned our homes/houses
And may God have mercy on us in the future
That what else would we be portioning/dividing/segregating
Will we be separating body from soul?
Will we be separating hand from body?
Or will we be separating/divorcing/removing the sense of life/living from
senses
 But before that our body parts/organs are (also) separated
(and) heartbeat is separated
Like that of this earth/planet/world
Like that of this beauty
Like that of this elegance/splendour
Oh lonesome/solitary friends
Oh isolated/segregated friends
Of this giant/great world
Let’s unite/agree (with eachother)/ join eachother
(Let’s) become one
Like honey and/on bee
Engulf/surround the world
And accept one culture
And accept one religion
And accept one language
And accept one literature
Let’s unite/come together again/once more
End the division/segregation of the world
Like the Berlin Wall
End separation/rift of yours and mine.