Declaration of Human Rights

"Every man is a nation to himself

Sovereign in the style of his life

Endowed with fundamental freedoms

Provided that he does not tread on the freedoms

Of his neighbors

As the United Nations assembles

To unite nations to one another,

So men and women of the world

Must unite and respect one another."

I.

I have tread far from my home land

Abroad

For the sake of experience

I have lived years away from my home

Abroad

In the name of Friendship

Yet always

My eyes and ears are open

I have seen some tread on others

And say it is a tradition

'What if the founders of that tradition

Lived today?'

'When the din of the offenders reaches the grave

And wakens the dead from their slumber,

Would the dead not stand up in their graves

And cry,

"You have defied, denied, belied and broken

That tradition.

What have you to say for yourselves

Now?"'

II.

I have heard some who,

In their desire to appease their anguish,

Assail the security of others.

Misery loves company

Yet to satisfy oneself while one causes misery to others

Is a vice.

He is blind,

Who applies the same weak excuse

On other innocents.

'T were best not to do that at all.

Who does stands to be blamed

Who does not do is blameless

I call to arms, to put down this abuse

But they lay it upon me

There are immature, selfish users

Yet 't were best always

Neither to number oneself amongst them

Nor to accuse innocent users of the said guilt

So I stand, silent

Whilst the guilty yell and howl

Like hounds

Around me.