SOFTHESS In the air, a soft, warm breeze. In the breeze, a gentle sound. In the sound, a name of love, In
the name, some profound, pure and sweet gift of
grace, for all times remembered well. In such a gift, an island green of hope and blessed dream. A
place to live from far away. to freshen up in
warm streams of golden shores, pathways of green and palms of faith Such the young tenacious girl born
upon a day of tenderness The brightest sun, the
mountains touched that day in endless song of light, and there were fountains of joy spilling life for long My Wish to you on the New Century Let us not be blinded by the brevity of the present moment. Let us not be tormented by the "End of". Let us not run so fast, all it does
is to keep us in the same place. Let us not multitask
for a moment. Let us not think of Death because
death is "nothing to us, since when we are, death has
not come and when death has come, we are not" (Epicurus). It is true, We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond. This is the heyday of speed. Command centers control our existence. We barely know we are alive, all we know is about being in fast forward mode, time is of the essence, rushed we feel, even in the midst of bliss. A new century, a millennium, Y2K, the misery of the Bug, the Web, e-mail, nanosecond precision, a billionth of a second error- one foot off track to Mars, precisely tune bandwidths, supersonic gate to gate intercontinental shuttles, speed dial butttons, remote controls, 10 seconds wait- an eternity- DropStuff life, it makes haste, compresses time into an infinite loop of queues, it gets there before what or who? we don't know. It just gets there. Here it is my wish to you. Stop for a normal second of time and think of someone to love, something to give, a good deed to do beyond the Master Clock for it cannot "tell our time of day, For What event to pray, Because we have no time, because we have no time until we know what time to fill, Why time is other than time was" _W. A. Auden. See you in less hectic days, when time may be again the gift to give and have, to love for long in overtime mode. January 1st. 2000 JUST AN INSTANT
An instant was of light of summer dawn and blue of hope upon the sky... and then
no more but doom and fury of hell upon the land. A cloud of death for us all to walk the path of no return. The
empire is grieving, our souls in ashes drown, friends, brothers, souls unknown, their postume cry from far beyond a plight of rescue call us all, to
live again and roar with fury unleashed only God can hear us in our pain from the horror of today.
Do not rejoice in battle
the midst of fury unleashed, Agfan in flames or
Taliban destroyed. Marching on today we must not to seek revenge, or match the reign of horror launched
on fateful day, but to find the way to see the face of evil in its cave of hell and feel
the grip of death and rescue life itself. For the time has come to let the well of our faith
run beyond the roots of Bin Laden. To kill the beast we must, for in the killing the
sword of justice thrust, an eternal dawn will come of light for Islam and for us all.
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