UBUNTU

*photo credit below

* Ubuntu is a South African term, a humanist philosophy, of our inter-connectedness, that says when you do good, it spreads, and is for the whole of humanity.

I hold your heart

in my heart.

Ubuntu.

In your eyes

I see my own longing.

In your smile, 

lies our shared existence.

Ubuntu.

Kindness lives

at the core of you.

Feather your heart richly

with dreams.

Ubuntu.

For every need,

there's a giver.

Gifts given ripple out

like a river.

To your need,

from my heart,

Ubuntu.

From my shore to yours,

Ubuntu.

*photo credit: Doug Rea, Professor of Imaging Arts and Sciences, and freelance photographer for NGO's. Site: www.cias.rit.edu

On youtube there is a trailer about Madonna's film I Am Because We Are, the story of the effect of the AIDS pandemic in Malawi. You can watch it here, if you wish.