Moving Forward

Oh, children of the Earth,

How long will you suffer War?

Why do you give men the power to make war?

Why do you allow men to rule over you

That believe in violence?

How long will you entertain the delusion

That you can build

The Kingdom of Peace

Using the weapons of War?

What vile experience must you endure

To make you realise the revolting nature of war?

What horrific scourging

Need you suffer

To make you lose your taste for

Steal, blood, and terror?

Men of violence,

Who see enemies everywhere,

Are not fit to run a school

Let alone a nation.

Let us no more learn to make war!

When will be begin to learn to make Peace?!

Let us no more learn of war,

Let it become a bad memory,

A terror of the night season,

Whereupon awaking

We discover

The world of beauty, harmony, light, and life.

Let us transform our means of destruction

Into a means of creation,

Our means of inflicting harm

Into a means of creating healing.

Let us put an end to mourning

Let us no more hear the sound of mothers weeping

Let us stop the tears bought with terror.

Instead, let laughter peal through our streets like thunder.

Instead of screams

Let music fill the air

Instead of the bitter parting,

With fear that they will never return,

Let there be joyful welcoming

With the peace that knows they will never go to that place again

With joy let us move forward

Into the light of the truth of love and brotherhood

Knowing that we have once, for all, and forever,

Put the darkness of hatred and enmity behind us

Let forgiveness break the chains of hatred

That hold us fast in the darkness of the past

Let faith reveal the

Brighter worlds and better days ahead

If we are to give our lives

Then let us give them

With Love to Beauty, Truth, and Goodness