Do you want to be happy? Lead us to love. Do you want to be rich in spirit? Lead us to love. Would you rather have harmony than harm? Lead us to love. Do you wish to banish the bad and replace it with good? Lead us to love. Would you wish to cleanse your heart of hatred? Lead us to love. Do you hunger to hold others whose skin is a different shade? Lead us to love. Do sometimes you feel the tinge of empathy, but never quite enough? Lead us to love. Would you rather have around your sons and daughters than send them off to war? Lead us to love. Do you yearn to forgive others who have done you wrong? Lead us to love. Would you like to fall asleep and awaken to a world of peace? Lead us to love. Lead us to love. Lead us to love.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia Univrsity, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.