World Peace!
Are you an idealist’s dream
Never to be achieved?
Were the Beatles’ Loving words
In vain?
Or can we get there?
Can we build a world
Where no-one Hates?
For that’s the first step:
Stop Hating!
Abandon your lust for land
Wealth and Power.
Learn to love those different from
Yourself.
We need a new approach.
We maybe need a Government of The World,
Democratically elected.
I’ve no idea who might set this up.
But we need it badly.
We need someone to share the world’s resources
So that no-one has to fight
Just to get a drink or bite to eat.
I search my soul,
To find that I myself am wanting.
Old hates still burn my brain.
I recall some people I would hurt
For what they did to me
In days gone by.
So I meditate,
Seeking to soothe my troubled soul.
For, if I can find some peace within myself,
Well, that’s a start.
Paul Butters
Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 6:19 AM UTC
World Peace!
Are you an idealist’s dream
Never to be achieved?
Were the Beatles’ Loving words
In vain?
Or can we get there?
Can we build a world
Where no-one Hates?
For that’s the first step:
Stop Hating!
Abandon your lust for land
Wealth and Power.
Learn to love those different from
Yourself.
We need a new approach.
We maybe need a Government of The World,
Democratically elected.
I’ve no idea who might set this up.
But we need it badly.
We need someone to share the world’s resources
So that no-one has to fight
Just to get a drink or bite to eat.
I search my soul,
To find that I myself am wanting.
Old hates still burn my brain.
I recall some people I would hurt
For what they did to me
In days gone by.
So I meditate,
Seeking to soothe my troubled soul.
For, if I can find some peace within myself,
Well, that’s a start.
Paul Butters
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