Mediterranean
Sea-A Blue Sea of Love
now
a Blood Tainted Sea of Fear.
Mediterranean-the water-
“in the middle of earth”
the Great Sea,
the Sea of Ages,
the blue sea of ancient
and
modern times;
historic water of every
season,
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 through
you
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.
By means of you,
many had become rich,
through you, lands from
Maghreb to Middle East
have 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?
Great Sea-why has your
bank-
your shoreline becomes
a slaughter house,
when there are no slabs?
Oh! Water of Ages-
why welcoming soldiers,
whose major battle field
is-
Mediterranean’s shorelines?
Why allowing
soldiers of darkness
slaughtering-the poor and
the weak at your bank-
causing this-ever-quiet-
loving-blue,
Sea 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
everyday.
Your symbol-the blue-
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 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?
The 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.
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