There must be Peace
If there is to be Love
There must be willingness to Love
If there is to be Peace.
There must be Forgiveness
If Peace and Love are to be sustained
It is time
We put to an end
Things that divide us
It is time to begin
To let Peace and Love unite us
It is time
To let Light and Reason guide us
It is time
That all people re-direct wars and aggressions -
Not toward fellow beings
But direct them against ignorance
Against poverty
Against prejudice
Against disease
Against suffering
And against the viral and microbial forces
Which have always plagued human well being
It is time for Peace
And for mutual, symbiotic co-existence
It is time
It is time
It is time
Among the greatest of paradoxes
Is that war leads to peace,
But is has done so.
Among the greatest of errors
Is to think Evil will engage in reason
Evil will not engage in reason
And it is evil to indulge evil
~Worrell
A Time For Peace
Other Bill Worrell poems include:
Carpe EVERY Diem • Some Day • Spirits Visit • Such Children • Time for Peace • Unity
