But we don't live in such a tranquil, cloudless world. At moments like this I always imagine myself a hero. Come close to me. Never mind the lightning, let me see the color of your eyes, copper-tinged in its light. In this world of war and violence where people destroy one another, if only they knew, even if they don't see it-not just two people but thousands of people-that far removed from religion and ideology far from everything, yet in spite of everything, that they love one another. Without making
grand pronouncements, without saying "This is the truth," let's do the one thing which man has been doing every since he was man, where we have a sense of ourselves in another, where we understand our weaknesses and our strengths:
come, let us have love..