ZERO DISCRIMINATION
For not one race alone does the dawn rise
nor does the sun caress beloved skin:
golden fire embraces the earth,
it settles on mountains, seas, and plains.
Thus humanity was shaped by primordial breath
when life awoke in the silent clay
and every heart received the same spark.
Yet blindness snatches away wisdom.
Proud minds erect ephemeral thrones,
dividing what the world had made whole,
and staining the common brotherhood with dust
with vain concepts of color, language, and name.
But the truth, long buried in dark thoughts,
will arise as light dispels the trembling night.
For in the secret chambers of the soul
no sign of race is written by the stars;
a crimson tide flows through every being,
hope, pain, and fragile shared breaths.
Then cast away those chains of ancient contempt;
let justice triumph over prejudice.
So the earth, long weary of such conflicts,
will finally see an era of more benign light,
where no one is inferior or marked by birth,
For all are equal in the eyes of Heaven.
Translated by Franca Colozzo