Thursday, February 5, 2015

Passion for Peace III

We forgive you because you were born
Forgive us, please! For we’d also be gone

This gibberish just popped out... I had perhaps been possessed by Lucky, who never waited for Godot by the way, ha!

Lucky that I was, with Pozzo outside of me, I needed a hat to think. Lucky that I am now with Pozzo in me, 'I don't need no [hat]'!

Hello fellows,

Installing Peace

I have come back. Again! Just to remind you of the rats that might be lying on streets and making headlines! Let us not call them rats, let’s call them poor cousins... ah no! They are actually our siblings... we don’t recognise them as ones because of many differences, like skin, language, food, dress, etc. No matter what name you give them, rats, poor cousins, siblings, they are our own...at least from the inside...like blood, flesh, skeletons, functions of their organs, their ribs... I am here to tell you to be prepared...

SOS for the SOT 

Tell me how is it possible not to be angry on those who are killing our siblings? Tell me how? But we have to practise that...because anger blocks our ways, it clouds our thoughts, it is essentially destructive in nature and Intelligence has nothing to do with it... so we will not let anger block our ways to Intelligence! Every single individual who is dying because of terrorism is my sibling, the world belongs to me, it is my property... it is this thought alone that can deliver us...so let us think of ourselves as siblings, from today... we are all siblings here... waiting to die...why not... who has escaped death anyway... just add an adjective....like untimely death, unprepared or sudden death...that’s all! But today, we are determined to put this behind us... from this day onward, we will refer to each other as siblings...we are not cousins, we are not aliens, we are our siblings. To save our siblings is our cause. We know that in the absence of a noble cause, intelligence doesn't show us the way. For instance, the school of terrorism (SOT) has a cause in front of them, which it thinks as noble. So we have decided on SOS [save our siblings] as our cause to counter SOT’s.

Thank you for your time...we have all assembled here to discuss on how to demolish this SOT. Our path is powerful because it is that of peace...what? Thank you for the name... GROW UP is what you have decided, is it? And what does it stand for? Oh! Getting Rid Of War...Using Peace! Oh, that’s a nice name to have, but we shouldn't get limited by the name alone... I hope you do understand! So for this SOT, we have SOS...and for SOS, we have formed a team called GROW UP, is it? Good! I am happy that you have agreed upon this name, although some of you think of it as childish, but you are mature enough to let go of your egos, and not waste time fighting for a more effective name...after all what is in a name...GROW UP will stand for what it is...no matter what! 

GROW UP

I am so happy to write down the points of this MoM. 

1. 
We will not kill anyone, no matter what because killing does not help, we have seen that. We will think differently.
2. Those who are getting killed and those who are killing are our siblings.
3. We are good at post-mortem, at understanding how things happened. We will now focus on pre-mortem, will focus on prevention...Intelligence will show us the way for sure.
4. For the same reason, we will employ pre-detectives... the world is with us...we treat the world as a whole, from today. 
5. We consider those who have been killed and will be killed and those who are killing as our siblings. I know some of you wanted siblings to be replaced as riblings, but later decided to stick to siblings without getting emotional...that’s good indeed! 
6. In this journey, we consider Martin Luther King Jr. as our guru because of the following reasons:
    • Upon hearing his famous speech ‘I have a dream’ a number of times, we have not seen any hatred, any anger for those against whom he was talking, in fact the speech was not for or against someone, but against something
    • No angry vocal clues were observed, no angry facial expression, not a nerve on his face changed as he was delivering the speech
    • As a result of the speech, things changed... and today we do not observe any killing (physical) of the people for whom he was speaking
    • The speech was like a prayer that came from the Heart of our guru, the heart which truly represented many hearts, the heart which did not exclude the hearts to whom the appeal was made
    • His ability to connect with the world without sounding rude is what we will need in our effort to demolish the SOT 
7. We will connect with the Intelligence to
     a. Demolish the SOT with love
      b. Understand the dependencies and neutralise them
  i. A gun has the power to kill, but is powerless without a bullet insideWe will separate the guns from the bullets
ii. A bullet has the power to kill, but is powerless without a gun: We will separate the bullets from the guns
iii. A loaded gun has the power to kill, but is powerless without a personWe will separate the persons from the loaded guns
iv. Persons with loaded guns have the power to kill, but are powerless without vehiclesWe will separate the persons with loaded guns from the vehicles

8. Understand how a regular person like us gets admitted into the SOT and track their trajectory:  A regular person, like us, thinks killing innocent people unarmed, unaware is dangerous, unfair, unkind ------ the person gets admitted and inducted to the SOT ------ the same person thinks killing innocent people unarmed and unaware is convenient, fun and fair: NOW with GROW UP’s intelligent intervention, this track will be demolished 

9. Not lose POWER
    1. We will not torture anyone sharing SOT’s religion, because we know what happens during the moments of torture... the power from the tortured person is transmitted to the SOT
    2. Not blame any country for supporting the SOT. We lose power if we do that because the country which is ostracised unknowingly transmits power to the SOT
    3. We will not consider any country, or a group or even the SOT as separate from the world... if anyone has to be ashamed, if at all, for the innocent-killing, the world has to be ashamed... Understanding the world as a whole... in the level of feelings, not that of words
10. Strengthen our network, remote sensing, deploy Intelligence of the highest order to track, monitor movements (money, arms and weapons, students or supports of any kind), virtual, physical to and from the SOT

Action plan

We have decided to plan on these lines

1. Understand that justice without love has always been disproportionate and unjust
    • Otherwise how is Sisyphus still pushing the stone!
2. Focus on the crime, not on those committing the crime: In the exchange of energy and information, Love is the only reality of the Infinite consciousness, it is the only energy and information
3.  We will do our research on the schoolWe need to understand what kind of love, commitment, dedication the SOT has because SOT is a Learning Organisation: It has spread its network in every part of the world,  its ultimate success of power was displayed  by demolishing the twin towers in the USof conversion was displayed in France, where they converted persons from the land of Voltaire to kill free-thinkers; it has less of suicide bombers now...they kill and flee
4. Understand how we can make committing crimes inconvenientIt is sad to see how we have made committing crimes so convenient. A bank holdup is easy these days, and it’s an easy and fast way of getting loads of money getting rich faster and bribing one’s way out, isn't it? Most people who are behind the bars today have nothing to do with the crime...yes most of them are innocent. Most Money laundering, cheating, frauds have become so common these days. Like most people who are fired from organisations have been fired because they failed to be in the good books of some powerful men and women! Yes, most of those who get fired are innocents. It's a habit for predators to prey on the innocent, and we blame the students alone, huh! We have also seen what kind of mails now float around to entice the innocents... your mail/ mobile number has won [an obscene amount], you have been selected by a [dream organisation], please come and join us by paying [a small amount]...I wonder how they track these innocent people like us desperately looking for jobs/wherewithal... it is Intelligence that’s working behind all this, isn't it? So killing innocents or playing on their weaknesses, helplessness has always been convenient to make money or to prove a point. 
5. NOT blame: If we have to blame, we need to blame all of us, as a whole. Look how interesting we are... we invented computers, hardware, software, and god knows what... but we also invented computer virus! We did it, didn't we? And then we also invented anti-virus! We have invented medicines, and then spread diseases so we could sell those, didn't we? In organisations, we hire people when we need, but we also fire them when we need, don’t we? And we claim to work as a family! We are talking about disarmament, but we are making a lot of money by producing sophisticated weapons for mass killing, aren't we! So, in order to let innocent-killings freeze in the past, we have to stop blaming the students of the SOT...else past will continue to be our future. It’s actually good fellows, that we have decided to NOT blame, but focus, focus, focus on demolishing the SOT. 

6. Deliver Peace through pre-mortem and by deploying pre-detectives: We have decided to place drama of the highest order in two things
1.      To strengthen our tracking system until the point we are able to send mails to the SOT on neutralising terror before they send us mails on causing terror. There will soon come a day when the first mail will be sent in advance by GROW UP with the following lines:Dear SOT, We know your plans of sending us mails on your next delivery. You are hereby informed not to try there because it will be annulled / neutralized by us.

All the best
GROW UP

2. Charlie ChaplinOur focus on the scope of work would be to convert a scene of terror into a comical scene. We will keep Charlie as our guru here. Imagine a scene where people are busy shopping, window shopping; office goers, and children playing in the park, writing their examinations suddenly gunned down. Boom! And gone!!! What energy spreads post the scene? Horror, terror, anger, scare, fear, mistrust, hatred, helplessness, and many more! Our Intelligence promises to convert this into a comical one. Like this:

Our advance tracking system is able to track the car in which the SOT students are coming. They come and alight in Medias Res! But they don’t know we have neutralized those guns with which they have come to deliver (spread terror, horror)! They open fire, nothing happens, they find all their guns inert, deactivated! With eggs on their faces, they run towards the car in which they came, but find the car deactivated too!! Those students now panic because they can’t even kill themselves!!! NOW! By this time, the innocent crowd comes to know of what’s happening... and ... no but they don’t pounce on them... Intelligence comes and takes control!!! 

I am so happy to know that all of us have agreed not to put them behind the bars, or to punish them in order to get information from them, but to let them know that we don’t depend on them to get information, to drop them in their homes and pat them on their cheek and say, "Dudes better luck next time!" And if they have parents and other family members at home, we’d even have a cup of coffee with them. 

          From GROW UP.

This is not fiction. Intelligence will turn this into a reality very soon because our action is not directed against someone, but against something. The whole world full of siblings is now determined to install peace, with love.

Team! Oh please! Please don’t think of me as the Team Lead because I called you as Team! Ha ha! I am not a leader, and I am definitely not using a corporate jargon to subjugate you...Team! Ha ha!! ... I would be happy to follow you! Oh Intelligence, please come forward and connect! Heartened to know that despite disagreements in the modus operandi, we have agreed on one fact; that if we are intelligent enough, we don’t need to be cruel!

Let me know if the points mentioned in the MoM are correctly represented. Feel free to correct the language (I know my English is not good enough...so please go ahead and make the necessary changes)... I pray you look at the strength in the thoughts by overlooking the weakness in the language, at least for the time being! Remember! SOS for the SOT!


Yours, Supratik 

P.S Unlike Lucky, I put on my hat as a remedy to schizophrenia... I stop talking, writing with my hat on...will be off with it some other time maybe... don’t know when...see you until then.


Tuesday, February 3, 2015

And buried underneath


Under the earth,
They lie in muddy albums
Burnt, buried, rotten!

Who are these?
Poor cousins!

Far, far off my lands
Their nourished thoughts
Woke up from the same bed
Sounding strange in disfigured ribs!

They froze and shivered for a quilt
But I thought they were dancing
And gave them ghungroos*
They died with them, tied in their bones.

I wouldn’t dig them out,
For there’s more to come
To sleep under the bed of coloured tears
The earth prepared to take some more...

I am busy making ornaments,
I will ignore the tremor
Behold the dance.
When they’d shiver in their imprisoned frames!

I am keeping the berth soggy enough,
Not to struggle too hard to scoop the concrete
For some more needs to be burnt,
And buried underneath

Note: Ghungroos: also known as Ghunghroo or Ghunghru or Ghungur (Bengali) or Salangai (Tamil) is one of many small metallic bells strung together to form Ghungroos, a musical anklet tied to the feet of classical dancers.


Explanation:  This poem
1.      Is a take on ‘clarity’, on specificity, on bondage that ‘I am this and only this; I am not that’! How does clarity help I wonder! If I said with utmost clarity not to fight or to rage war, or to produce weapons for mass destruction, it doesn't help... this is just one among myriads of examples.
2.      Is only about ‘feeling’, and I am heartened  to see that although many things are unclear, it makes for a reading
3.      Has one central theme, viz. torture and pain
4. Is also of 'understanding' a/the problem instead of being adamant in providing solutions
Interpretation to this poem depends on the experience readers are going through at the moment of reading. For example, it could be about 'flesh trade’, about devadasis, of a probable punishment of the wrong-doers, and so on! However, it also talks about our inability to connect with the ‘real’ cause; therefore shivers are interpreted as dance, and when the remedy would have been quilt, it comes in the form of ghoongroos; a corporate example to this would be giving apples instead of oranges. Our situations of torture do not change because our reaction to situations is seldom a response, always a reaction, therefore the remedy is a quick-fix. But the interesting part is that we know deep inside that the remedy will not help, therefore I am prepared with soggy berth because i know there’s more to come. In what the last stanza looks as a punishment, it could also be a looked as acceptance... because this is also something that the poem wants to say, that it is perhaps through acceptance of our situations that solutions might emerge.
I must also quickly add that the writer’s interpretation is not sacrosanct... the poem wants to connect with readers above everything else, and therefore the poet is also a reader. Yes, in this poem, nothing is so clear, a dollop of ice-cream floating as clouds can also appear as cotton...it all depends on how readers interpret it. The position of the poet is at the base, at the bottom of things just urging to connect.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Hello hi

Hello hi

With a hello that is hollow,
Or a hi that is low,
Nothing will mellow,
Nothing will follow.

With a hello that is high,
And a hi that is warm,
Nothing will lie,
Nothing will harm.

20 January 2015

Monday, January 19, 2015

Passion for Peace II

Hello fellows,

Sub.: The real conversion

We are back to work again. Why not? That’s life. Life prepares us for everything. Therefore, we are prepared for our next condolences, manifestations, mass mourning, and protests alongside our merry makings, Christmases, other festivals, and of course our respective businesses and work. But we are not prepared to talk openly about terrorism that’s the recent man-made force majeure! Yes we are afraid of jihad, aren’t we? If I say Islam and Salim are anagrams, I might have a jihad against me; if it’s not reason enough, I can say Mails and Islam and Salim are anagrams; well take it like this...if mails come from Salim, it means warnings have come from Islam, and the world would have reasons to worry! Then the Jihad is surely in the offing! Well jokes part, I think until the time the 'when next, where next and how next' becomes a reality, we’d be normal and happy-go-lucky again! Our leaders will come from the greenrooms with a concerned makeup on their faces. Listen I am not blaming anyone because leaders are also normal human beings, like us, with ordinary passions and goals, not as extra-ordinary as the school of terrorism! I congratulate them because they were able to convert people from the land of Voltaire into shooting a group of free-thinkers; a land which had gifted democracy to the world, imagine this extra-ordinary achievement!! Kudos to the school of terrorism!

Every night I have a dream, a crazy dream... that we are able to convert those students we call terrorists into accepting differences, some of them had even turned into liberals and now protecting the world instead of their earlier pursuits. But that’s just a dream... I know it will never come true... our Intelligence has not given us any signs so far to show that yes it can convert a group of terrorists into non-terrorists! But what if it used its remote-sensing to keep track of every single weapon that’s being produced on earth along with their movements? What if it could track the virtual and physical classes where training on the conviction for killing in the name of religion go on? Who takes them, how do they happen, and when do they happen and o yes WHY do they happen! But no, our Intelligence needs to penalise smokers smoking in the non-smoking zones.

Ever since these two incidents have happened in Pakistan and France, I am thinking on the physical and virtual dependencies that the school of terrorism had to factor!! Can you imagine how those people were trained, given weapons of conviction to go out in the open and kill? The students whom we call terrorists had to be mobilised and empowered right in Medias Res to do what they did...and what was our remote sensing doing?! I guess it was engaged in creating a fire alarm? Or some rocket sciences!  

So fellows, we have an engaging, a fascinating, a passionate work in front of us to ensure a cure for this migraine, don't we? Sometimes I wonder if we lack the conviction...do we need some students from the same school?! Can't we buy some of them? Well the school is buying some of us all the time! We need to see a drama of the highest form on stage please. The whole world has to unite and put its Intelligence at stake to deliver. Ensure that not a drop of gun, money, and training is mobilised towards the school of terrorism. From thinking that the school is working under the instruction of Allah to kill unarmed people unaware towards thinking that it is working against Allah is not a small task, but this is what needs to be done, I think.

O I didn't tell you this... I also had this dream that all of us, I mean literally all of us, were able to locate the physical presence of the school of terrorism and... we were marching towards that land to crush the school down once and for all with our sheer strength of population! But when  we were crushing it under our countless feet, I also saw us doing it with love and power. That’s how the school of terrorism disappeared from the face of the earth and those students whom we once called terrorists got lost in the sea of crowd. And thus the mails that came from Salim got converted from warning to message on peace and acceptance from Islam!


Yours, Supratik

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Unprepared

Unprepared

Screening the clouds,
in the sky,
bound to fall
as blue horror.

Used series of grief,
nothing happens,
only preparedness,
for the next
waters of shame
bound to flow
inside the veins.

Today, I decide
to walk under the sun,
darkness inside
falls
on the indomitable grasses.

Such is the truth.
There is no relief.
Masks prepared.
Unprepared stage.



There are many things that happen around us we don't understand. Screening or otherwise, something that's bound to fall or flow will, no matter what. From concerns to successes to failures to horrors, they come in masks...else how does one understand something as beauty, right, correct which the other doesn't. We resist what is clear, we resist what is natural... this is the best I could do as explanation; the poem is bound to delve under confusion, even with the Intelligent mind!

18 January 2015

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Move on!

Move on!

The path towards peace is a daunting one,
Needs merciless shredding of thoughts,
Admittance of mistakes,
Relentless and passionate re-work of
Words,
Books,
Actions,
One, one, one to focus on the One!
This battle has to be won and delivered to the World,
When an American or a Mexican is killed I am killed,
A Pakistani, an Indian, a Bangladeshi killed I am killed,
A French or English killed I am killed.
A myriad of times with bullets and guns,
To focus on the one, to focus on the One!

The world belongs to me and me to the World,
Without visas and passports full of inert words!
For the passion for horror I have passion for peace,
I am not meek to accept you at ease,
I am talking to you, to you if you please!

Searching for shades of sameness is a shame,
Looks of a pet and a child are not taught.
Different and incorrect are not twins,
Yet roots are born in the veins of brains,
Brought into us through ages with a designed thoroughfare,
Everybody has a logic by which they act as if to care;
Those in bikinis and those with guns,
To focus on the one, to focus on the One!
Those who terrorize and those who harmonize
This reason needs acceptance not to jeopardize.
Rejection is the root that ransacks the calm,
Their smiles and their barks have the magic and the charm!
We need the table to understand the game,
Searching for shades of sameness is so much of a shame.

My hidden world of peace tell me when you'd come!
How we’d like to sing that we have overcome

If we make peace our priority, a measure for growth and development, our only raison d’être, then it is no rocket science, paths will show up. However, I know it’s never going to happen… so let’s move on!

14 January 2015

Monday, January 12, 2015

Meditation

The seven qualities of the individual consciousness (the soul or the I) are: Happiness, peace, power, love, purity, knowledge, bliss.

The prayer:

Happiness is natural.
I am happiness.
Peace is natural.
I am peace.
Power is natural.
I am power.
Love is natural.
I am love.
Purity is natural.
I am purity.
Knowledge is natural.
I am knowledge.
Bliss is natural.
I am bliss.

The seven qualities of the individual consciousness are similar and different at the same time. Let’s run through this…

Happiness is happiness, happiness is peace, happiness is power, happiness is love, happiness is purity, happiness is knowledge, and happiness is bliss…. I am happiness.

Peace is happiness, peace is peace, peace is power, peace is love, peace is purity, peace is knowledge, and peace is bliss…. I am peace.

Power is happiness, power is peace, power is power, power is love, power is purity, power is knowledge, and power is bliss… I am power.

Love is happiness, love is peace, love is power, love is love, love is purity, love is knowledge, and love is bliss…. I am love.

Purity is happiness, purity is peace, purity is power, purity is love, purity is purity, purity is knowledge, and purity is bliss… I am purity.

Knowledge is happiness, knowledge is peace, knowledge is power, knowledge is love, knowledge is purity, knowledge is knowledge, and knowledge is bliss… I am knowledge.

Bliss is happiness, bliss is peace, bliss is power, bliss is love, bliss is purity, bliss is knowledge, and bliss is bliss… I am bliss.



Inspired by the BKs and Deepak Chopra

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Passion for Peace

Sub.: I may be a layperson, but I am also a stakeholder

Hello fellows,

I am bored. No, I am not annoyed or angered, but simply bored to see how the world and the Intelligence thinks! We have the power to ignore the issue and delve in the trivial. Am I mad? Must be, for I don’t see any sense in the manifestations in Paris or the group mourning in Pakistan. What big names we have, ‘Black day for humanity’, ‘Je suis Charlie’ and this goes on and on and on! Journalists who have covered the programmes in Pakistan and France have said how many people were affected by this, how many countries have empathized, sympathized… how many have shown solidarity…do we even factor that among the audiences who contributed to the TRP are also those people responsible for the attacks, who for all you know have given them a high-five while watching them!

Is there anyone who wants terrorism to disappear from the face of the earth, for Heaven’s sake…when I asked this question, I found no one raising their hands because everyone did! Now what does this mean? It means that we are willing to do everything from the outside, being external, being superficial that is. This explains mourning, manifestations, showing solidarity and support…all of this is external. We know nothing is going to happen, no world leader can deliver Peace; however many can deliver Growth.
Else how is it possible that the Intelligence that is venturing out successfully onto the outer world cannot outwit the trouble that has since long been a global headache. Are the heads thinking?! No fellows, no! If you asked me why, I’d say I don’t know!

 All you need to do is to understand the following:
ü  What is the mind that’s successful in transforming some minds (even those in France!!!) into thinking that what they are doing is right? Not talking to them is only helping in increasing the heads of innocent killings
ü  Who are the Masterminds, capture them and talk to them to understand why they congratulate those who kill children and cartoonists. The job here is to not put them behind the bars and torture them to breed more terrorists
ü  Where is the money coming from to buy arms, and more importantly, to train people from all over the world, into tactics and techniques of causing, spreading terror
ü  How is the network

 Passion for Peace

ü   Stop all your work, go broke until you break the barriers of hatred and wrath
ü   Seek help from the Intelligent minds, the Brahmakumaris, Deepak Chopra and others
ü  Let the stock markets stop, let all profits flow into losses until we bring back the true nature of humankind
ü  It is not France or Pakistan or the US, every human being in this world is a stakeholder here
ü  Develop a mechanism to align every single individual into thinking that Peace is more important than Growth and Profits
ü  Do not boast of your technologies until you track these minds and their networks

This has come from a foolish mind like me. From somebody who knows nothing about anything, from somebody who loves to love and hates to hate. Now tell me, if the world leaders would deploy intelligence (the likes of NASA) into tracking the source of money, people, arms, would it take more than a week’s time to crack the puzzle? Okay, let’s assume I have overestimated the world Intelligence; then you tell me how many days will it take! Helping those minds understand the essence of Islam and other religions wouldn’t be difficult at all beyond a point. We have the world with us, they are just a few… and we are victims?! Nah! Leaders…can’t buy that. For the moment, please do not think of any growth and development in your respective countries…with a single-minded focus deploy all your strengths to uproot terrorism, not terrorists, from the world! We do not want to sing ‘We shall overcome’ fifty years down the line…we want to change the tense and sing ‘We have overcome’ if you are willing to put this tension behind us!

 Yours aye, Supratik

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Black Peter


Black Peter

Peter for god-knows-what was proud,
Never got along well with the innocuous crowd,
Was rude with everyone including his boss,
His team thought his mind was pretty little cross.

When you spoke with him he went all so tan,
He'd whisper with a few, as if crafting a plan,
He wrote his senseless lines and thought of them as poems,
Then texted his colleagues to read; only to those he thought were friends.

The team and the boss got their life of a chance,
To uproot this Peter with his obnoxious stance.
A lady in the team made a strong written complaint
A text sent at night? O this is harassment!

But wait! This wasn't just enough,
Peter also performed way below his peers.
Faults here and there, said the trusted reviewer.
Now he’d be out for sure, it's clear without a bluff.

The bad apple's out, the triumphant team was glad,
Good riddance from the con that made them always sad,
With him in the team no one was ever safe,
But Peter per the doctor was myopic and deaf.

But listen to this my friends! Peter says, victims are always cruel,
That he's still a victor who'd survive in the hell.
He worries on the Peter who'd appear next on stage,
The play is waiting there to replay without a change!


I am glad I wrote this. The poem tries to see how group judgement can sometimes go wrong. We seem to depend too much on the machinery called 'everybody' but at times it can be cruel and even wrong! A group of people, in victim mode, inflicting inexplicable pain on one individual is no less than a gang rape or a terror attack. All of this happens in the name of justice.... if you asked those men who are gunning down innocent people, as to why they are doing what they are doing, they'd have something to say, so where is the difference?

10 January 2015

Friday, January 9, 2015

Above mediocrity

Above mediocrity

I will rise above mediocrity,
And with me will raise a race,
Where do I see you and not see me?
In clouds without mirth and grace!
You who do not respect elders, neighbours,
Have taught me self-respect;
You who worked up the workers,
Have taught me to be honest;
You who were afraid of death, bred terror
Have taught me fearlessness,
About love and peace;
You who nurtured hatred and anger,
Didn’t you teach me about bliss?

But this is not what I see Mount Olympus!
I know what you have hidden from above,
The child, who was ugly, I learn,
Embodied kindness and peace!
Rejected by parents,
Deceived by his wife –
A Goddess of love
With war in her brain,
His seat rived to the lowest abyss,
The smith weaved through the deserted life.

I forgive my teachers and guardians on this day,
For the same song they heard,
The same verse did they nurse!
I will rise above mediocrity come what may.
With me I will follow my herd;
How can in my universe,
Be anything other than me?
Finished now my ignoble blaming hearse,
Learning drizzles ceaseless for free!

Note: Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. He is the only god who is ugly. As a child, he was rejected by his parents. His wife, Aphrodite, goddess of love was in love with Ares, god of war. Hephaestus was kind and peace-loving.

09 January 2015