Such as President Obama <br />may not say it; but I <br />who am nobody, may speak it: <br /> <br />the God of many names and One <br />does not wish division; <br />you and I (there are no others?) <br />do not wish division; <br />who makes division? <br /> <br />Why do all seek an ‘enemy’? <br />The dispossessed invent an enemy <br />on whom to blame their plight; <br /> <br />the rich invent an enemy <br />to excuse their greed; <br /> <br />those who worship God under one name <br />make enemy of those who worship God <br />under another name; <br /> <br />even those who worship God under the same name <br />make sects in order to invent an enemy; <br /> <br />is it because it is easier <br />to make an enemy than a friend? <br /> <br />is it easier to fear <br />than to love? <br /> <br />is it easier to hate <br />than to love? <br /> <br />is it easier to count to two <br />than think of three or one? <br /> <br />do we feel more powerful <br />if we have an enemy? <br /> <br />and now we fire at enemies <br />invisible beyond the horizon.. <br /> <br />are enemies more attractive <br />to our life than friends? <br /> <br />Tell me, poets, tell me, sages; <br />tell me, saints; oh tell me God; <br /> <br />tell me, arithmeticians: <br />when division multiplies <br /> <br />our enemies, why do we <br />so love division? <br /> <br />The God of many names and One <br />makes division in Himself <br />with love and without hate; <br /> <br />you and I (there are no others?) <br />love each other all the more <br />in the sameness of our differences; <br /> <br />does human kind <br />now hate itself so much? <br /> <br />who thinks division, loves division? <br />makes an enemy of otherness? <br />forgets that God is One?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saying-the-unspeakable/
