Stop the Hate
POETRY FORMAT, 16 Dec 2019
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
At a world in turmoil we sadly wonder
Our duty and responsibility we ponder
Through experience we know
Life is the energy good or bad that flow
Until our death when we are no more
And only our deeds tell our lore
Some of us were taught at schools
To remember the golden rules
Not only that we do to others what we hope for ourselves
But that there is a price or a prize for acts themselves
That everything we do we get back
A good or a bad deed even a smile or a crack
“God give them what they wish for me”
actually, what I do comes back to me
what I did yesterday
comes back to me today
You cannot make war for peace and security
Any more than you can have sex for virginity
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
Positive energy begets positive
Selfish thought begets negative
Choose Justice, kindness, and humanism
not Cruelty, greed, and racism
You can’t take money to your grave
Only bad deeds and good deeds left to save
Let this simple fact not get blurred
Save a child, a plant, a friend, or a bird
Worry about your spirit,
Of all pollution do clear it
The tranquil is not the hawk but the dove
You cannot conquer the hate except by the love
Take a deep breath in and gently breathe out
Meditate and you will find that winning route
Ponder how the soft conquers the hard
And why the evil deeds are marred
The roads of the wise are like the water steams
hard stones dissipate in its way like dreams
The key is time which is patience realized
The door is kindness we must have utilized
Stop the racism, stop the hate
Start with your heart – never too late
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. http://palestinenature.org
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