In The Name Of Humanity(Nuba Mountains)

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"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." 

~ William Gladstone

  

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Her innocence they fed on, to the bushes they led her,

Spread her legs as if a bed they laid on her,

Too weak to fight back, all she could do was beg them to stop,

Four men, but none ever stopped to consider the blood or tears she shed,

Just like that they fled, leaving her for dead. 

Next to her lifeless body he laid,

For her life back he desperately prayed,

Covered in a pool of blood, his life for hers he was willing to trade,

Her bloodied face he hoped was just a mask, for a moment there he thought this was just a masquerade, 

His desperate attempts to wake her were all in vain, eventually, his screams began to fade.

What if I told you, I know of a place, 

Where families play hide and seek with Antonov bomber planes, forcing them to travel back in time and live in caves, in hiding,

Where the youth don't need to smoke tobacco, for their lungs are already black, from constantly inhaling heavy clouds of smoke from their burning homes,

Where tomorrow is not guaranteed, not by an act of God, but by that of men, driven by greed,

Where democracy is relegated to the books, and freedom, just but a mere illusion. 

Here dictators brutally kill civilians because their choices, they disagreed with,

"They chose wrong side" they say, nothing, but disposable rotten seeds,

Too complex for their creed, so it's got to be a misdeed,

With political ambitions, blinded by greed, for humanity they never concede,

But even this, doesn't break my people because they believe one day, they will be freed.

What if I told you the name of this place? 

Would it make you want to lend your voice, lead a protest or wave a banner?

Would you understand the pain of a mother burying her son?

That of a father, watching his daughter burn?

Or that of a young boy, whose only education in life, has been how to target and pull the trigger to protect his family?

Would the nightmares in that 6-year-old girls head make you want to share a sweet dream? 

Would it make you want to stand up for humanity, and alter your predisposition to embrace ignorance as bliss? 

Would it make you want to pen tomorrows chapter, of a future where the people of Nuba Mountains dance to the rhythm of love, instead of running at the sound of gun shots?

In the words of Charlie Chaplin, 

"To those who can hear me, 

I say “Do not despair.” 

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,

The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, 

And the power they took from the people will return to the people. 

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, 

Men who despise you and enslave you,

Who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! 

Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men!

Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! 

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! 

You have a love of humanity in your hearts! 

You do not hate! Only the unloved hate,

The unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! 

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke it is written, 

“The kingdom of God is within man”, 

Not one man nor a group of men, 

But in all men! In you!

You, the people, have the power, 

The power to create machines, the power to create happiness!

You, the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, 

To make this life a wonderful adventure. 

Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

Let us all unite. 

Let us fight for a new world, 

A decent world that will give men a chance to work, 

That will give youth a future and old age a security. 

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. 

But they lie! They do not fulfil their promise. 

They never will! 

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! 

Let us fight to free the world! 

To do away with national barriers! 

To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

Let us fight for a world of reason, 

A world where science and progress will lead to all mens' happiness.”

So in the name of humanity, let us all unite!

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