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The Dove's Cry

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Take me to a place once more
To fields of green and blooms galore
So I can rest and dream of peace
Of hate and fear to finally cease

I guess my hopes will go unheard
So much will rest on the wings of a bird
A dove no less of peace and calm
To soak our prayers  to soothe and balm

To look and see what should be seen
To come and go to whence we've been
To talk and speak with words to say
Of prayers and hope and when to pray

I cry the tears of faith once lost
Of hope and sanity at any cost
Of futures bright and place the past to rest
To hold the dreams clasped against our breast

It is so simple,  for I do know
To share our love and the seeds we sow
To come as one and give until
We all can grow and have our fill

Human kindness is from within
To pass from one to another kin
Speak these words and teach the young
These words of wisdom should be sung

One day the sun will rise so clear
To no more angst and hidden fear
A place for us and one and all
To hear the coo of the dove's sweet call
It can happen .....
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A beautiful poem,
a dream, a wish, a prayer, despair.
War is the machinery of governments world wide, I believe.
People don't make wars... Governments do.

And yet we sit, in our homes, all over the globe, wanting, wishing, praying for the dream of peace, because it is a dream, and when we awaken it is to the nightmare of the realities of war.

I was a teenager during the late 60's and my brother went to Vietnam. The Vietnam war was the first that was ever televised and I remember watching the evening news and praying to see my brother's face and to know he was all right.

It was not like it is now. The violence we saw on the evening news, wouldn't faze a teenager in this day and age, because with the passage of time, violence is so common place. We have gotten desensitized to it. We have gotten desensitized to war.

I am probably a strange person for saying this, but honestly, my heart goes out to the families of the soldiers that we war against.

They are sons, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, of people who stand up for what they believe in, even if what the believe in is different from what I believe in.

I don't believe anyone ever "wins" a war. There is a saying I heard a many years ago, perhaps in a song, I don't recall. "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" What indeed!