Love is the Solution!

Esmail Khoi

Esmail Khoi is one of the most famous living Iranian poets. He was invited to respond to the principles of Love is the Solution. Zaghi and Khoi were not aquainted beforehand. Khoi was resistant to the idea, but after careful thought came to the conclusion that Zaghi was right.

Dear Mr. Nasser Zaghi:

Hello. Years ago I wrote this poem:

The Great Synthesis

Your socialism
-Comrade East!-
goes for social equality,
leaving out individual Freedom.
That is the problem.

And your individualism
-Brother West!-
goes for individual Freedom,
leaving out social Equality.
that is the problem.

And the solution?
NO!!
Let us not argue
about the "true" kind of freedom
or "false" versions of equality.
That will not lead
to more freedom
or more of equality.

The solution is Justice
Equality freely shared
And Freedom shared equally-
Yes,
justice is the solution.

Thank you, Comrade East!
You have produced the Hydrogen of
equality.

Thank you, Brother West!
You have produced the Oxygen of
freedom.

But now, Humanity thirsts
For the pure and purifying water of
Justice!

You have both of you,
prepared the ground
for the Great Synthesis.
You have, both of you,
paved the highway
for Humankind to reach
the non-metaphorical, non-metaphysical
Heaven
of the Humanity beyond you
on this Earth.

Thank you both.
You have done well.
And it is time,
therefore,
For both of you
to go to Hell.

Having acquainted myself with your ideas, I have come to realize that my recipe for future humanity lacks a most vital ingredient:

LOVE

I have spoken of freedom as oxygen and of justice as the hydrogen necessary for the vital water of human happiness to come to be. I agree with you now:

Love is the electrical charge that makes the fusion possible. Therefore, please count me as one of your comrades.

YES, sir: I agree LOVE is the Solution!

Yours,
Esmail Khoi
22/10/2003
Bidar Koja
London
http://www.esmailkhoi.com/

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