A Georgian Maltese Cultural evening ...

These thoughts were shared during the Georgian Maltese Cultural evening held at Intercontinental Malta on 11.4.22 ... every opportunity is a great opportunity to promote values like love and peace!

Through the Tint

I have been looking

through the tinted glass ...

Now it’s been too long,

almost too painful indeed ...

Distanced away from the real world

I felt the pain of isolation,

the shame of humiliation,

the anguish of internal mitigation...

I believed I had lost sight

of what meant to live and love

just because I had been

too far away from human contact.

Technology made it possible

to see beyond the tint,

or that’s what I thought ...

then amidst conflicting messages

of peace and war,

cyberbullying and body shaming,

hate speech and keyboard anger shattered

all over the blessed screen,

I realised that I was still

behind another tinted glass ...

Had I lost sight or

had everyone else lost

perspective of true values and beliefs?

All of a sudden,

I felt the urge

to break through the glass,

to reach out to the hearts

to break out from this forced social media.

It cannot be!

It doesn’t work this way!

Have we lost diologue over greed?

Have we lost perspective over illusion?

Have we lost vision over self-centredness?

Have we lost our true soul to

the zombie creatures of modern technology?

And as I reach out

and try to see what we have in common,

I realise there are too many built walls;

too many obstacles; too many excuses ...

so I pull up my socks

and breach this stupid

new human protocol,

engulfing my pride

whilst carrying all that surrounds me:

art, nature, poetry

and let the sea waves carry me

onto the other side:

the colourful side of endless dreams,

the place where hearts reunite,

where minds are free to voice their thoughts

and ears are meant to listen intently!