Love your neighbor,
more than you obey the state;
a world left to the whims of politicians,
doesn’t take long to be a land of waste.

Nothing’s easier than being an ape:
obey the tribal chief,
practice the state-approved religion,
and never love a neighbor
that your monkey king disapproves of –

but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone,
three fundamental forces which invoke
the very ruin of political power,
for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear,
and elevate them to human consciousness,
which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.

I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse
to hate my brother from another mother –
like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature and
ultimately disperse into nature.