Bicentenary Poems and Prose

Unity of Humanity: To The Bab

Unity of Humanity:
To The Bab

"We have created you from one tree and have caused you to be as the leaves and fruit of the same tree, that haply ye may become a source of comfort to one another."

The Bab1

How many times
does the message
have to be repeated
before we accept humanity
as the leaves and fruits
of a single tree.

The Bab
proclaimed the message
in The Book of Names,
and Baha'u'llah reiterated--
restated--
in different words
the oneness of the Tree
of humanity.

Poet's Note: ▼

This is poem 150 of the 200 I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab.

Footnotes
1  http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/tb/SWB/swb-117.html