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From The Book of Path To Love Page 2
Published 2017

In A Dark Forest of Humanity
By: Ashraf 

Lost in a darkest forest of humanity…
Shivering in cold.
A tired soul,
Not giving in
To be the fashion or the common mold.

 Hungry for light,
drowned in kindness.
Craving for the fresh air,
While stranded in a polluted, suffocating flare.

 Out of desperation,
To calm her hopeless frustration,
She planted a seed of Persian jasmine
with her cold fragile hands.

She prayed…

and prayed.
Pleading with all the religions and none religion brands.
Singing love songs to the seed
With all that she can.
Days passed by
Darkness grow more intense
Wind kept howling.
Destroying lives,

Turning all who cared, sad and very much insane.

 
She closed her eyes,
Singing all the love songs she could.
While visualizing the perfection of man.
Suddenly, a beautiful sprout popped up.

Excited,

She kept singing some more
Chirping like a bird with galore,
Nourishing the desired soul.
The jasmine kept growing,
aroma filling up the air.
Spreading like a wild fire
All over the world.

Announcing LOVE
& mankind's beauty of the soul.
The forest of humanity was illuminated once again,
The light soothing and warm.
Forcing the darkness  
& the Cold to retreat to the swamp.

  
The awakened forest of humanity
Became a display of passion & unity.
Other dark forests followed.
The planet lit up with rays of love and peace
The planet became one family at last.
All because of a tiny jasmine seed!

Warriors of PEACE!

By Ashraf

The sound of the music tender… & loud,
intoxicatingly intoxicating…
feelings of LOVE & UNITY by the masses invigorating.
The feverish passion of humanity …
Tantalizingly raw …
Injustices on the oppressed…
Raising the temperature feverishly high…
Impacting the environment… 
the nature, and the space, and the sky.

Cumulous clouds pouring rain…
Inundating…flooding streets…
Hurricanes trembling, rolling, and shattering the stones…
Earthquakes…moving the seismic plates…
Creating a shift…
unimaginable, unfathomable …
As never before …
Only in Biblical times …
in the ancient era… 
in history books.

The earth vibrating …
Beneath the warriors virtual feet ….
Moved by emotions…Across the globe…
Marching…Marching…Marching VIRTUALLY….in silent screams…
Their thunderous stomps…
Shaking the earth…
vibrating…
STOMPING ON the ground!
Uniting “We The People”

in REJECTION of VIOLENCE …
REJECTION of corporate WARS…
Subjugation of minorities …
oppression of the oppressed…
Rejection of the HATE… the bigotry… 
CREATION & deepening of divides…
The rich verses poor…
Black verses white…
my religion verses yours.

The warriors are marching…
A virtual walk in silence…
A volcano of silence…in seismic proportions.
Enormity of emotions…
Thunderous voices of the voiceless…
Shaking the ground…
Cracking the stone…
Shifting & changing perceptions…
Resulting in an EVOLUTION of men…moving forward…
Beyond anything seen…
Or ever heard.

Raising demand for the acceptance of all
NOT minority imposed on majority…
But, ALL treated in EQUALITY…
NOT a world ruled by military….
the powerful pulling the strings…
Forming the MOB of all sides…with puppets guiding the crowd…
Amplifying the ultimate DIVIDE…
Extremists on all sides….
Turning one AGAINST others.
But calmly & wisely, warriors are observing….
Ignoring it all…

The warriors of PEACE are getting shaped & formed.
With oceans of compassion felt in their hearts.
The waves are strongly moving…marching…in UNITY…
Weapons made of art…
MUSICALS compose a symphony of emotions…
feelings are formed, compiled with silent screams of LOVE…
deeply, deeply felt.
Majority of the voiceless…are being heard.
Warriors whose weapons of war…are made of art…music…poetry. 

Written in the books & acted in theaters live…
Stories made by the unknown warriors across the globe.
Feverish pulls on strings of guitar…
Banged on tempos…piano…violin.
Persian daff…
Persian sitars…
Their dances are their weapons…
Chronographs by perceptions of their life…

injustices…
Crimes…Corruptions and wars…imposed on innocents…to NO fault of their own.
Warriors whose weapons are woven…
patched tightly by emotions…
Emotions of broken hearts…
broken promises …
Shattered innocent lives caught in war zones…
To no fault of their own..
Simply for where they were born…
in Ukraine…Yemen…Syria…Libya…Afghanistan…or Palestine…
killed by violence…sanctions…terror…& war crimes.
By pretenders of democracy…
Pretenders of human rights…
While stepping…spitting…walking over human skulls…
bodies of the masses…
shattered by all types of WAR.

Warriors are marching… 
hand in hand…side by side…
in a virtual walk across the globe…
the poor NEXT to the compassionate rich…
Black NEXT to white ….
All & all in between…
Holding virtual hands in solidarity for the RIGHTS of men…

United…
Rejecting all “ISMS,”
Regardless of differences in religion….
United in …
Rejecting the RULE of MOB…
Rejecting the Corporate WARS…
Rejecting the BIGOTRY & HATE
the PUPPETS & PUPPETEERS alike…
Rejecting the regime changing crowd…
The ultimate causes of the DIVIDE.

Warriors are marching…
Armed with diverse cultural art…music ….& dances…
Biblical and Quranic verses …
Human evolutions & all kind of advances…
In declarations of love for ONE another…
JUSTICE & EQUALITY …
Ability in neutrality of each nation…
Regaining sovereignty …
Honoring independence.

Warriors are marching in UNITY,
holding virtual hands…
Trusting the ability of MEN.
God’s masterpiece creation…
Seeking PEACE…Through JUSTICE for all.
Warriors on the march…
Formed by the awakened and the intellectuals…
Able to connect the invisible dots…

Collusion of the puppets… & puppeteers…creation of the intimidating MOB…
The extremists from all sides…
spreading HATE….
To conquer by deepening of the DIVIDES…
As done, since the existence of men…
But this time …
It is VERY, VERY different.

As warriors & oppressed are UNITED
in a virtual march…
Holding each others’ hands..
Rich next to the poor
Black next to the white…
ALL to standing up for all people’s RIGHTS.
The Rights of the OPPRESSED…
By ERASING the existing DIVIDE…

Enlighten…shine over the color of humanity front and FIRST…
The natives…the tribes…cultures…nations…ancients…and the new…
In a virtual march…Side by side….
In UNITY.
NO to HATE …
NO to violence…
NO to divisions…
NO to WARS.
Rejecting puppets…
and puppeteers ALL ALIKE!

Rejecting puppets & puppeteers all alike…
For humanity to EVOLVE …
To BUILD a future…
harmoniously in PEACE…Understanding through respect…
& ultimately LOVE.
Through JUSTICE for ALL…
No superiority of ONE nation
No superiority of ONE Race
or one gender over the OTHER.

Warriors are marching…hand in hand with the oppressed…With the music of LOVE…

Dances of emotions…
Impacting the BEAUTY of nature.
Calm can be returned & restored…
No more hurricanes…or storms.
Everlasting harmony will return…
Fresh air…clean water…gentle breeze & amazing colors of flowers…
The choreographic awesomeness of nature back in flourishing of the colorful flowers.

BEAUTY in the UNITY of men…At last restored...
A must…for existence of LIFE in harmony & PEACE on earth
To return for ever and EVER…
ONCE & for all!

The second coming!
they clamor,
beating their chests.
Provoking nations
dropping bombs over their heads
innocents slaughtered
heroes not spared.
In far ... far ancient
biblical lands
painting it with blood
the color of red!

Turning homes to dust
streets to rubble.
Raising pulses of humanity
to a palpable crescendo
Sorrow
The Unease
Unsettled!

Gone with the wind
The lives, laughter of kids.
Hearts STOP beating
Lives halted
Shattered and destroyed
Smashed & VOID
Like mosquitos or ants
to be terribly annoyed.

The second coming!
They declared,
bulldozers
buzzing around bodies of the dead.
Homes uprooted
many have fled.
Generations vaporized like dust
slowly falling downwards
adding to the earthly crust.
Bodies buried deep in the sand
the young
barely adults
loved ones
leaving earlier than their time
would have otherwise allowed.

A body bleeding drip by drip
left dying on the corner of a street
coloring the road
the darkest shade of red
For all to see.
Yet!
Vultures.... buzzards....Condors flying
Circling over... the body of the dead!

The second coming!
They spewed,
While blind & ignorant
Oblivious to their crimes
Butchering the left and the right
Too blind to notice
The SECOND COMING is already HERE!

The unity of real Islam
& the real Christians
And billions of others
The LOVE for one another
The crowd of the Muslims, the Christians, & the Jews
and all others away from their views
Chanting
Chanting
Of the LOVE reverberating the sky
The enormous energy
Of the LOVE
Traveling so fast
Uniting with one
Connecting to others!

Blind and oblivious to the chants for JUSTICE
As Jesus & Muhammad fought for
As the Quran demands
And prescribes.
Oblivious to the ERA of REAL information
UNITING the Human race.
Oblivious to the END of their ERA
Their overwhelming LIES
Crimes beyond belief
TRUTH turned upside down
Forcing the masses to rise up,
to take a PEACEFUL STAND!

End of the ERA of darkness
End of the WARS of creeds
The era of overwhelming DECEITS
To embrace UNITY through the LOVE
Seeking JUSTICE once and for all.

The second coming is HERE
Not in a literal sense
Not in physical... touchable... seeable human plight

But, as an abstract spiritual delight
As religion is ALWAYS meant to be
And ALWAYS will be
A real JIHAD!
A struggle within and outside till righteousness abides...
Cutting trough culmination of FEAR leading to the HATE
Coming to the END for once and for all.

Welcoming the ERA of PEACE
Through the unity & justice for ALL.
The second coming is ALREADY here
NEVER again to fall
Enlightening the earth inhabitants
With DIGNITY for all
Let’s embrace this earth-shattering
Revamping
Reverberating
The second coming ERA
ALREADY BEGUN.

An END to the WARS
END to the empires of DECEIT.
END to kings with MURDERERS & CREEDS
Colonialism & race superiority through
DIVISION, manipulation, and CHEATS.

The second coming is ALREADY here
& will NEVER disappear!
Let’s celebrate & embrace UNITY through LOVE.
Celebrate and seek JUSTICE once and for all
Let’s celebrate the earth
this vast kingdom & its grand nature
It various creatures
The people and the dove.

The SECOND COMING is here and has begun.
A Celebration of life.
A celebration of life!

Happiness

By Ashraf

Happiness is a cup of tea
with a soulmate or beloved
even if in imagination 
or 
a floating
moving
cloud.

Happiness is 
when your loved ones
are happy and healthy
roaming about 
Even if not with you 
or 
always 
around. 

Happiness is YOU
whispering 
your words in to my listening ears
stirring sentiment 
melting away fears.

Happiness is you & me
the us.
Our energy twirling like a dervish 
in a Persian bazaar 
or a mosque.
Colliding 
uniting 
for ever and ever
Since beyond.

Even if simply in our minds
while focusing on HERE 
In this place and for NOW
or 
a speck
floating in space
in the future
thousands of years from now.

Happiness is living for each other 
for better or for worse
Knowing that is all that really matters

And happiness is you.
A universe in my imagination 
a universe consisting of YOU!
Existing in this century 
with borrowed clothing
a universe 
uniquely designed 
in the current shape of YOU!

Unique but similar!

By Ashraf

I've traveled to so many places.
I've seen continents, nations
tribes, and various 
colors, races, and faces.
Each time I tried to gather 
a pearl of wisdom or two.
My shade changed to different colors & hues.

It seemed a blessing at first
But also a curse too.
My feeling of belonging grew and grew
But I also felt as though I no longer belonged.
They became my family and my country 
my beloved
my cultures too.

I felt at home with all religions
as long as love was their allegiance.
Hate was a forbidden path for me.
The path of justice was the main road
to end all existing feuds.
I always found a bridge to my sweet home
loved all the cultures I had ever known
and places I had ever roamed.

But it was a lonely journey all along
as I felt isolated from the crowd.
I wanted everyone to love one another
as they seemed so alike.
Once the layers were peeled like an onion
the cores were all unique but similar.

Deeply human
filed with sorrow and love
striking resemblance 
despite our clothing and appearance.
I wanted to scream
please STOP!
Focus on similarities and realize 
we are all truly one.

Scattered particles of a shooting star
The result of the Big Bang theory afar
We are all truly one
Unique
Beautiful
Special
Creating a tapestry 
a melting pot
a masterpiece 
A mosaic or carpet of Persian art.

We are all but one
I wish we could accept it 
believe it
understand it
and move on forward.