The Dream of Peace

 

They say we come from starlight.

We have long been nurtured
and protected

by ancient forests, our Earth Mother,

and blue sky.

We were fashioned by dreamers,

awakened to the world by song.
In our DNA lies our ancestral memories
of those early ones, who tilled the soil,
observed the seasons and the land's needs
with respect.

In our bones we feel our kinship

with whalesong, padding paws

along soft trails, the sharp eyes

of wise old owls - a world where,

once, we too belonged.

How did we, born of all this

love and light, become such

a divided, warring species?

Whence and why the turning

from long pathways of peace

to this dark and troubled world?

And yet, within our hearts,
across the nations,

the dream of peace still lives.

We recognize
that, always and forever,
we are meant

not to surrender, but to rise.

source

for Mimi Lenox's Blogblast for Peace