Ethnic traditions

POOR IS HE

Poor is he who has not been in the shadow of a warrior.

Poor is he who has not loved the flag of his bloodline.

Poor is he who cannot remember the sacrifice of his ancestors.

Poor is he who thinks his theory can replace his blood.

Poor is he who waits for a miracle from God.

Poor is the one who doesn’t know the value of loyalty.

Poor is he who does not seek the sounds of eternity.

Poor is he who does not feel the sun burning from the inside of his chest.

Poor is he who does not recognize the sunken ship, the swords and the symbols.

Poor is he who accepts repeated history in study books.

Poor is he who cannot see the forms of the gods and should sleep under a god conceived in the wilderness.

Poor is he who has forgotten the ice and stone age.

Poor is he who hasn’t watched his grandparents’ sick nights.

Poor is he who does not dream of wolves or eagles on full moon nights.

Poor is he who does not know that he got to his blood through a narrow maze of millenniums.

Poor is he who does not recognize the synchrony of fate.

Poor is the one who does not understand the heroic times of the suicide and the hero.

Poor is he who does not know what the mud under his feet is made of.

And blessed is he who recognized in his life the sacred value of loyalty.

‘The greatest gift that God can give us, is to see ourselves as others see us.’  Scottish Poet and Lyricist Robert Burns 1759-1796.

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