I Sing The Body Electric
By Michael Boyajian
I sing a song for humanity and take great solace in places where a multitude of languages can be heard as you walk far away streets. I embrace the Turk so that Jew and Arab can embrace themselves as well. I reach for new highs of belief when I see a majority in favor of same sex marriage yet feel low when the same majority projects anger at Muslims. I have been to the Alhambra a Moorish palace of vast beauty, a world heritage site and know that no work of art like this could be built out of hate.
I become frustrated by my unemployment suppressing my angst against those who laid me off but I embrace them in hopes that they will in turn embrace another. I travel the world not for vacation purposes but in search of knowledge of enlightenment. I drink ravishingly at this fountain.
I see China muscling Japan, a nation of peace since the end of World War II, and wish that Japan embrace China so that China may embrace Tibet. I see our President suffering great abuse at the hand of some and in an instant wish him to fight back ferociously but then realize perhaps he should embrace his foes.
The embrace can topple the mightiest for Christians once embraced Rome and that Empire fell. It’s an old adage that hate breeds hate so let us all embrace and erase that which divides us all for we are all the body electric. (Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892)
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