The year 2020 has brought realty of our humanity
We are grateful as now we know
We are divided inside and outside globally
We have ignored the spread of Corona virus
We have abused our glorious earth and its gifts
Deaths in millions around us did not move us
Wildfires and hurricanes could not wake us
We ignored the climate crisis
We even killed many of us brutally
Based on difference of color, faith, and race
And talked only in terms of Red and Blue
Black and white, Me and you
Wise scriptures described
Signs of the end of the world
And told us stories of good and evil too
Current times have brought us to the tip
Of this precarious end
Take the right action O humanity!
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Salma Arastu
My works are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. My paintings reveal stories of unity in diversity, peace and joy, celebration of life, and women and dancing whirling dervishes. Whether in paintings or sculptures, the faceless figures in my work represent the universal oneness of all humanity. My calligraphic work attempts to celebrate the same message of universality spread through verses in Arabic calligraphy and in the poetry of Rumi. Read More