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Sunday, January 16, 2005

Tell Me Why

I haven't updated for some time and many things have occured since my last update. While I have revived my KD website, tragedies such as the tsunami attack (which will only excerbate the abject social and economic conditions in developing countries), the Iraq occupation, the Isareli-Palestinian conflict, the Dafur crisis and many more still continue to this day. What seems to escape most people are that injustices are created by only the most advanced species we have come to known but yet the least competent at times. It is perhaps only with strange bewilderment that the simplest of bio-organisms, if they had the intelligence, would probably look at us and wonder where is the extra intelligence and mental faculties we were equipped with to survive in the world and what use they would be if they result in such chaos. The cockroaches will survive past us, ladies and gentlemen, and yet we are the ones capable of reflection and self-awareness.

Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to an old song by the group, Genesis (Phil Collin's former band). I reproduced the lyrics here but there is one thing amiss, the answers to the questions we have. There are plenty of them but somehow I don't think we ever will have the right one. Somehow our lives are filled with the pain and misery of living with multiple answers but yet, never deciding on the final one. But that is the human condition, to contend with the multiplicity and myraid answers in the world, while living our own world.

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"Tell Me Why"

Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet, tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There's too much food but there's none to spare,
Tell me why, oh tell me why

Can you see that shaft of sunlight
can you see it in my eyes
I can feel the fire that's burning
anger and hope so deep
so deep within my heart but before my eyes
for some it's too late
cos it seems there's no-one listening

People sleeping in the streets
no roof above, no food to eat, tell me why, oh tell me why
see the questions in their eyes
listen to their children's cries,
Tell me why, please tell me why

If there's a God, is he watching
can he give a ray of hope
so much pain and so much sorrow
tell me what does he see
when he looks at you
when he looks at me
what would he say
cos it seems there's no-one listening

Who would think it still could happen
even in this time and place
politicians, they may save themselves
ah but they won't save their face
so hope against hope it's not too late

You say there's nothing you can do
is there one rule for them and one for you,
tell me why, just tell my why

Listen can you see that shaft of sunlight
can you see it in my eyes
I can feel the fire that's burning
anger and hope so deep
so deep within my heart but before my eyes
for some it's too late
and it seems there's no-one listening

Hurry for me, hurry for me
Hurry for me, hurry for me, they cry, they cry...