night encouners

TWO SHIPS AT NIGHT

A Wish and a Fear,

Simultaneously, eh?

By Izzy Ess of Noblesse Oblige

Two ships just passing in the night, at risk for accidents, may hit each other stern to stern, or sidle up so gently that exchange of personnel becomes a possibility.  Exchange of fluids, could occur, but then a disengagement must ensue, without entanglements.  If not, one ship will be unbalanced and may not be able to push off.  The other ship will be obliged to sink the other, killing all the sailors, or it will be kind and tow the ship, at great expense for everyone, to safety in a haven where the personnel of both will be enamoured with each other and restart a kinder kind of high society.

Contentment, not malaise,

would then prevail.  Greed, gluttony and murder,

coveting, prevarication and

the sloth would vanish.  Lust would turn to love

and many babies would be born in bliss

and happiness.  The sunshine would be brighter

and be full of  ultraviolet

For growing everything with green leaves, eh?

Or, one might say it would predict the Green

Peace Movement that is seen, today.  In any

Case, the ship that towed the other showed

A Menschlichen good trait that would have led

to PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN AND WOMEN

AND THEIR CHILDREN.  Hallelujah and Amen!

Who knows what would have happened had the Hebrews

Better tolerated dogmata

A little different than their own.  Then they

Would have made peace with Babylonians

And Persians and Mesopotamians.

The Canaanites, in fact, made friends quite easily

Amongst the peoples of the Mediterranean

And they opened up

Commercial trading all around their world.

If Hebrews would have been more friendly there

Might have been established another atmosphere

Of understanding and of mutual

Respect.  Instead, they maintained very strict

Adherence to their dogmata.  They did

Help abetting  the constant fighting that

Has been a feature of the Middle East.

The Hebrews could have joined with the swifter

Sailing Phoenicians, also known as Canaanites

Or Lebanese.  In trading honestly

With all the people, there had been exchange

Of notions that would show that people are

Just people,  whatever philosophy

They held, so dear, at costs of lives and property.

Ishmael and Isaac were half-brothers, allegorically.

The Jews and Arabs could have kissed and made

Up, peacefully, some thousand years before

The temple at Jerusalem was built.

The blood of innocents would not have been

Shed, needlessly.  Perhaps, I am a pollyana,

But I see no reason why

The present Peace Talks cannot be successful,

Eh?

IT’S NOT TOO LATE, in my opinion!  STOP THE BLOODSHED!  Share some chicken soup and halvah, lox and bagels, falafel and even pork, the other white meat.  Its really luscious when prepared with care and understanding that death will not occur because of eating pork or bloody sausage, shell fish or those bottom feeders, lobster and the carp, clams and oysters, quite despite what Jews and Arabs claim.  All of us require food and water, proteins, fats and carbohydrates, air and oxygen and security for our own families, education and good health care.  Check it out!  I have and it doesn’t kill one to at least concede that everyone has goals that are similar and the the greedy dominators will continue to harangue their followers unless we all stand up and stop the non-sense that some spout.  Believe me!  Not all Jews are wealthy, smart and good at business.  Some, like me, are poor with handling of wealth and gold.  Perhaps, some frankincense and myrrh should get more mileage, and smooth the way for lasting Peace.  And, we don’t have to kill another just because our dogmata are different.  The Bible and Koran are distinctly much more similar than they are different.  Why should dogmata dictate that one must kill another if he preaches what he thinks is Truth, when the Truth is that we all are human beings with personal goals that are strikingly similar, not strikingly different.  The few who choose to agitate the masses with harangues of hatred, anger, envy and the use of scapegoats, must be stopped.  They must be just ignored or else the genocidal acts, the border skirmishes and out-and-out annihilations will not stop!  Revenge is deadly.  Forgiveness is sublime.  Its painfully clear to me and many people who have lost their kith and kin in world wars and crusades.  Amen.  Sobeit!  Hallelujah, eh?

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

September 30, 2013