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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 07:29 AM May 2020

They want us to be afraid.

They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!

Kamand Kojouri
Emphasis mine

I read this today and it resonated with me in the time we are living through and thought I would share it.
Can't let the nasty win. We own the light!!!! However much they try they cannot have our light. Period.
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They want us to be afraid. (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2020 OP
They wanted me to be afraid. Instead I got angry... this won't end well for them. abqtommy May 2020 #1
Angry is good. It is better than good... Soph0571 May 2020 #2
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