<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392296" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Insisting on Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peace is said to be elusive! <br>But peace is not elusive really<br>When it is loved and prized</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above other desires<br>Peace is what we think of<br>When we hold our children's hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And behold our futures<br>In a moment's contemplation <br>Of our deepest needs and plans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bread or rice or porridge<br>Garnished with some sweetness<br>And the relish still to come -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So is peace upon the tongue<br>A simple obligation<br>Daily duty undertaken</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To preserve the space to grow<br>All we need to learn and know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for all the little animals<br>And the beautiful believers<br>And their brothers, unbelievers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faithful equally and true<br>The little children too<br>And their own needs and desires<br>And the dreams they will pursue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We will love the taste of it<br>As our hungry souls are filled<br>Oh, be patient and insist on it<br>With your friends and enemies<br>Addicted more to peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since we have no powers<br>Of stop, search and arrest<br>We must crowd the hatred<br>And squeeze the violence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let them feel unwelcome here<br>Unwelcome in our homes and hearts<br>Until they face the mirror <br>To renounce their brutal ways<br>To confront the violence of our days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by these necessary means<br>One by one, hearts can be claimed<br>And freed of all their silent fears<br>Our hearts employed as builders' stones</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To raise up houses of ideals<br>Where hands can reach out unafraid <br>And wherein peace securely reigns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392296" data-title="Insisting on Peace de Frank Bana" data-description="Peace is said to be elusive! But peace is not elusive really When it is loved and prized Above other desires Peace is what we think of When we hold our children's hands And behold our futures In a moment's contemplation Of our deepest needs an..."></div> </div> </div>

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