A Melody Called Peace. Scott Johnson
such a hurry.
There will be peace, just wait.
This situation is not our fate.
There will be peace.
Do not become discouraged.
Be brave and have some courage.
There will be peace.
Not right away.
But when it comes,
You will surely cherish that day.
The Way to Peace
By Matt Pocock
Forget about your country's history
To hell with all the zionistic imagery
The grudges that you hold don't matter really
I don't care about your religious integrity
Who cares if they fired SCUD's and killed your children?
Peace will be with all if you can love them
Forget about your fake democracy
It doesn't matter if some of your voters seem to disagree
The prisoners that you hold don't matter really
I don't care about your political integrity
Who cares if they were the cause of 9/11?
Peace will be with all if you can love them
Forget about your hatred for Mugabe
If you cut him, he will surely bleed
The corpses that you hold don't matter really
I don't care about your family's integrity
Who cares if he feels more of a man by killing them?
Peace will be with all if you can love him
Forget about your devastating enemy
Don't worry about the countless chargeless detainees
The borders that you hold don't matter really
I don't care about your cultural integrity
Who cares if they've still been judged to be olympian?
Peace will be with all if you can love them
Forget about your country's civil liberties
Don't worry about the terrorist LTTE
The buddhist monks you hold don't matter really
I don't care about your Sinhalan integrity
Who cares if you're ignored by all the UN?
Peace will be with all if you can love them
The Path to Peace
By Roger Mather, from Iowa, U.S
This Far Eastern tale is to us very relevant,
Of three blind men who encountered an elephant.
"It's a wall," one man cried,
As he touched its tall side.
"But it's a rope, without fail,"
Said the next, hands on tail.
"Oh no, it's the trunk of a tree,"
On feeling a leg, said the last of the three.
With these words, our story ends.
It appears that the three men stayed friends.
For this to happen, you can be quite sure
Each of them had to get the whole picture.
So when with a person you disagree,
You may eye-to-eye yet readily see
If you compare your perspectives --- And spare the
invectives.
The Nights Bring No Peace
By Iohannes Silvaticus, from The North
And you lure me from sweet sleep
Into nightscapes and lucid dreams,
By which hellfire the demons play
Amongst mazey labyrinths and sulphurous haze.
In such incarceration do I lie,
Midst choking smoke and slow decay.
Mortal Beauties doomed by Fates
Resonate pleas to unfeeling walls
And take comfort in replays -Awaiting the rise of the Morning Star,
Awaiting impartial judgement to be made,
Awaiting the unfold of their dismay.
What medals that may line his breast,
Unsheathed my lance shall pierce his chest.
No infernal glory he may display
Shall avert me from this Orphic task
Laced with far more blood and hate.
Without a qualm shall I this Dragon slay.
But with time I do come to see
Her flair for conceal of treachery
That led to this unholy way -
That the beauty she did possess
Only gave me greater pains -
By and by my Love was no Euridyce.
So beneath tumultuous sheets still I lay,
For the Adversary to forebode the break of day.
The Grace of Peace
By Michael P. Johnson, from U.K
Disturbed upon my bed I lie
With blankets in a heap
Oh Lord dear God again I cry
Please grant Your servant sleep
Please show me where I'm going wrong
What now I ought to do
That I in peace may sing my song
And know I'm pleasing You
For You are God, Father and King
The Lamb on Heaven's throne
Creator Lord of everything
And life's true Cornerstone
Your majesty will see no end
Your power will remain
Yet as my God my trusted friend
Please take away my pain
Remove the burden from my heart
The baggage of despair
Command the turmoil swift depart
That I may peace declare
Destroy this plague this grievous woe
Demand the storm to cease
Sever the bridle of the foe
And give me inner peace
The future though I may not see
And though my pasts of shame
I'm reaching out to victory
In Jesus' mighty na me
Whatever must be sacrificed?
Until this fight is won
My faith is in The living Christ
My hope is