A Letter To Heaven

A Letter To Heaven

by

Chen Chen Muthahari

(Warning: Please do not eat or drink or sit with your child when you read this letter)

(Ai-Ai and Fei-Fei)

Dear The Owner of Heaven,

This is a letter

from a mother of two children

(Sukabumi)

I send some words

with a lot of pictures

Dear Lord of Love

(Afghanistan)

 I am speechless

(Afghanistan)

I lost my words

(Afghanistan)
 

 But

(Afghanistan)

I believe in Your Promises

(Afghanistan)
 

and never give up praying

(Afghanistan)



as they are my children

(Afghanistan)
 

and they are Your children

(Afghanistan)
 

 Thus, they have been looking for You

(Afghanistan)

somewhere under the sand in Afghanistan

(Hawaii)
 

hidden under the coconut trees in Hawaii

(Afghanistan)
 

and though it is hard 

(Afghanistan)
 

 to imagine

(Afghanistan)
 

their future

yet Your Crocus bloom and gloom

(Libanon)

 
so do the prayers we cries out for Love

Dear Lord of Life,

(Fei-Fei)

You have given a lot of food to my daughters

(Indonesia)

But I may have forgotten to give others

(Indonesia)

and I may have careless when electing the leaders of the people

(Africa)

or I may have taken too much that I left nothing for them

(Indonesia)

or I may have too busy with myself

(Africa)

that I have no time to reminds my friends

(Bangladesh)

for the Life you have given to me

(India)

there is parts of Life I shall give to them

(Indonesia)

Yet, I am too small to do it all by myself

(Indonesia)

and you, my friends, we can make it together

(Hawaii)

for one

(Bangladesh)

or for all

(Bangladesh)


 as Life is for everyone

(Indonesia)



and everyone lives for Life

Dear Lord of Light,

(Irak)

I do not understand pain

(Irak)

nor sorrow

(Irak)

but, when I close my eyes

(Irak)

I still can see the Light

(Irak)


You, O Light! shines here and there, now and then

(Palestine)

 so that my eyes can see everything bright

(Palestine)

but still I beg for Rainbow

(Palestine)

where blood and wine are one

(Palestine)

where no man can stop becoming human

(Palestine)

where everyone become father

(Irak)

where everyone becomes mother

(Palestine)

where every child becomes angel

(Palestine)

in Your Heaven

(Palestine)

and in Your Earth

(Irak)

please, bring us home to Your Light.

Dear Light of Love ,

(uranium victim,Irak)

before I was born I was in Heaven

(uranium victim, North Korea)

in the Earth, I'm searching for Heaven

 (uranium victims)

but who brings the Hell up to Earth?

 (uranium victims)

who send the fire to my new-born babies?

 (uranium victims)

here on Earth I can't see Heaven

 (uranium victims)

but, You know better, Oh Light of Love

(Kurdi)

I am a mother 

(Xin Jiang)

of Your children, flowers of the green emerald lawns

(Iran)

 of Your children, on the deserted lands

(Bangladesh)

of Your children, pearls of sparkling sands

(Timor Leste)

of Your children on the far away islands

(French)

of those who smells the fragrant of vineyards

(Kurdi)

of those who smells the summer's heat on hills

(Pattani-Malay)

of him who enjoys Your beautiful Rainbow

 (Tibet)

and of her who enjoys living on top of the world

I believe in Your Promises

After this very long winter

 After this very endless drought

(Uyghur)

You will send from Heaven

 The last piece of  peace the world really need for

 the last great manifestation of You, 

O Lord! The Only Light and The Only Love.

Amin rabbal alamiin.

*The source of each picture is directly linked.