Mediterranean Sea-I Knew-A Blue Sea of Love, Now A Blood Tainted Sea of Fear.

Mediterranean Sea-I knew-A Blue Sea of Love,

Now a Blood Tainted Sea of Fear.

 

Mediterranean-the water-

“in the middle of earth”

the Great Sea-yes-the Sea of Ages,

the blue sea of ancient and

modern times;

the historic water of every season,

the water that sustained yesterday-

emperors, empress, and kings,

water among waters.

 

The “sea” that turns “hinder”

when one faces Middle East,

a sea of over 4,000-year-of-

positive human activity and

“humanization of landscape”;

annually, you ferry 370,000,000

tons of oil to support world energy

needs,

yearly, over 300 oil tankers make

east-west trips to promote

international trades.

 

Every year, over 220,000

merchant vessels pass

through your lanes-

making you-one of-

the busiest seas on the earth.

 

Mediterranean-more than most

world waters, you have sustained

navigation, social, and economic

activities of humankind for

generations and centuries;

through you, many had become rich,

through you, lands from Maghreb

to Middle East survived-

inclement geographical condition.

By your kindness-kings, nobles and

emperors-etched their names on

epitaph of history.

 

Mediterranean-the Great Sea-

why the sudden change in your-

personality, lately?

The Great Sea-why has your bank-

yes, your shoreline becomes

a slaughter house-

even when there are no slabs?

 

Oh! Water of Ages-

why welcoming soldiers,

whose major battle field is-

Mediterranean’s shorelines, and

enemies-are the poor and the weak-

causing this-ever-quiet-loving-blue,

Water of Ages trouble of-

guilty conscience?

 

Daily, your sovereignty-is

challenged by forces of darkness;

Great Sea-

without your knowledge-

your symbolic representation-of:

“trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence,

intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven”

is continually substituted with: “rage,

anger, danger, malice, wrath,

stress and action.”

 

Every day, your tranquil mind and

calm heart is disturbed by people

with un-restrained desire for evil;

daily, your gentle and welcoming soul-

people with uncontrolled fits-of-anger

make you see innocent blood spill

on your bank.

 

Mediterranean-your peaceful

disposition of trust and order,

people without the heart-of-man

replaced with violence

from their swords,

instrument that keep

shedding innocent blood, daily.

 

Your symbol-the blue-

the loyal color of life-

which represents love, 

is now replaced with blood-

by those whose main vocabularies-

are hate, confrontation, rage and

blood.

 

Optimism, reliability, safety, and

harmony through environmental

support-

you have given to mankind

for centuries,

lately, fanatics, or

jaundice-infected-mind-

are now destroying.

 

Every day, your serene and

hallow shores are adumbrated  

by the cries of innocent souls-

as they undergo agonizing death

in the hands of their captors.

 

Rather than being a pilgrimage-

hate soldiers have made you

a Golgotha;

rather than being a source of

refreshing sea breeze to

invigorate the mind,

repulsive odor from corpses

in your seabed,

gift-merchants of death-

continually giving to coastal cities.

 

Instead of being a soul-

revival camp, or

a soul purifying sanctuary-

forces of evil have turned

you to a-soul-destructive-camp,

more so, a-sea-where-no-soul-

on-voyage-returns-home.

 

Mediterranean Sea- will you

continue down this route,

we never knew you to be?

Great Sea-will you continue-

drawing tears from families,

friends, communities

through the conduct of

un-Godly characters nestling

around your shorelines?

 

Mediterranean Sea-will you

keep playing host to these

cowards-who operate behind veils-

to commit crimes against

humanity?

Only time will TELL.