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Integration is Illumination (The Sonnet)
Asato ma sad gamaya*,
Benevolence is bismillah.
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya**,
Mind is the mightiest menorah.
Luz, lux, noor - light by any name,
Brings the same illumination.
And what is this mythical light,
If not an act of collective ascension!
Light is not the absence of darkness,
Light is the absence of indifference.
Darkness is symptom, coldness is the sickness,
Once we treat coldness, we'll treat all darkness.
I repeat, light by any name brings the same illumination.
If not now, when will we put an end to this dehumanization!
(*Let's rise from ignorance to truth. **Let's rise from darkness to light.)
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Abhijit Naskar (Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence)