Fellow Travellers…

Hello there

I was asked the other day what did I think about my fellow travellers on planet Earth.

This question was in direct response to the continuing crisis in the Middle East and I remembered a poem I had written in my book  ‘ Passion-songs and Plums’.

If you check out my website www.melodyrgreen.com you can download it for free.

Here is the poem.

Life’s tourist arrives, visits, devours 

And buys things he covets 

For they are different from what he knows

He takes them home and they fill his closets.

Life’s traveller arrives, passes through,

Buying only what he needs,

Wishing to find what he has left behind,

Cursing the strangeness he sees.

Life’s refugee arrives to stay

For as long as it is safe to do so,

Yearning for what he perceives he has lost,

Willing to create his old world in this new space.

Life’s lover arrives with curious eyes,

Willing to learn, to explore, to exchange

And give Him back to those he has learned to love

Leaving the world a better place.

Who are you Beloved?

 

Until next time

Blessings fellow travellers

Melody