kawakurdi12 Sep 2002

GW, I know you are a decent kind-hearted person too. I was not addressing you in particular but p&k and other readers too. I think some misynderstanding has occured here. I do not have any hate towards the U.S or entertain any other hate that might blur vision of common humanity. I just hate hatred wherever comes and injustice whoever causes and commits it. I appreciate what you wrote with consideration and sympathy. Just about the comparison and the title I am not with you but this does not mean an allout war or not being potential friends. I don't think attaching 9/11 diminishes my poem or enhances it. This was not the aim. The aim is simply to attarct attention that there are other similar tragedies all of which are equally serious and catastrophic. But 9/11 is not something small. It is very grave and great, unforgettable and unforgivable. So I don't think there should be comaprisons in quality. Human life is precious and sacred and must be so considered indiscriminately. Those who died on 9/11 are also martyrs because they were criminally killed without any justification other than blind hatred.

Sorry the experience I have only demonstrates how feeble and futile words are in the face of bombs, and logic in the face of power. Yes but still we write, breathe and love. My suffering has not blinded me but opened my eyes to the reality of huamnity: a jungle in which cannibals rule. But I never lost my faith in love and in small sweet gifts of kindness. I am going to raed your poem I AM ......