“The Man With No Roots (Sonnet)
The day children are raised
without religion and nationality,
that's the beginning of peacemaking,
and the empirical end to warmongery.
Either raise your children with
no religion or multiple religions,
either raise your children with
no culture or multiple cultures.
I grew up celebrating Diwali,
eating fruitcake on the 25th,
and waking up to the call of Azaan -
if I'm devout anything, it's a devout human.
I have no roots, for I am the roots;
I am the ruin of all heritage of lies.
Illegal Immigrant in every state,
for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.”
Source: Chasing Impossible
“Either raise your children with no religion or multiple religions, either raise your children with no culture or multiple cultures.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“My entire life is a struggle to establish earth as home for every faith and fervor, there is no place for derangement disguised as divine chosenness.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“As farmers we now have to reconcile the need to produce more food than any other generation in history with the necessity to do that sustainably and in ways that allow nature to survive alongside us. We need to bring the two clashing ideologies about farming together to make it as sustainable and as diverse as it can be.”
Source: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
“Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight, Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit, American Ambition, Arabian Adamance, Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality - like rivers running eager to meet in sea, cultures converged to bring me to life.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I never hankered for booze or drugs, you know why - because I'm already drunk, with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering contraband in history - I'm ever consumed with languages and cultures.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The Drunken Polyglot (Sonnet 2300)
I never hankered for booze or drugs,
you know why - because I'm already drunk,
with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering
contraband in history - I'm ever consumed
with languages and cultures.
Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight,
Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit,
American Ambition, Arabian Adamance,
Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality -
like rivers running eager to meet in sea,
cultures converged to bring me to life.
I am vast beyond the spell of tribe,
I am the ruin of all resurging reich.
Call it Reich, Empire or Uncle Sam -
Zionist State or Hindu Rashtra -
Animal Kingdoms are found everywhere, still,
reason is to reichs what phenyl is to floor.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper