The Vernal Equinox

bits and pieces

Ah, the Vernal Equinox. Happy New Year to all my Druid, Wiccan, Pagan and Persian friends and acquaintances. I've been to Stonehenge, by the way. In the days when you could actually walk up to, and touch, it.

Schumacher wins yet again. Formula 1 is becoming tediously tiresome by its predictability. Team McLaren Mercedes, I'll give you TWO kicks up the backside this time.

A year ago, the Americans and their Running Dogs, the Brits and the Aussies, with the tacit help of the Spaniards, Turks and Saudis, invaded Iraq. I wrote a poem on the human toll of such a violent act of unprovoked aggression, that was subsequently recited at the MERCY Malaysia annual fund-raising dinner and raised $14,000. I think this is as good a time as any to repeat it:

Just Before You Sleep Tonight...
Kuala Lumpur, March 21, 2003
by Azlan Adnan

Just before you sleep tonight...
Snug and cozy in your warm bed,
After a hot and satisfying dinner,
With a roof over your head

Do give a ray of hope and spare a prayer
To those unwitting Victims of War,
Who have fled their homes in panic and fear:
Internally Displaced People and Refugees

For they shall be sleeping far from home,
Without a meal in their aching bellies,
Under the open sky, without a roof over their heads,
With the cold winter winds for company

They have spent the day walking for miles,
Bringing only what food and clothes they can carry,
Fleeing their homes, leaving everything behind,
Seeking safety and what remains of human dignity.

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