A plea for peace (Friends, please give up a V for peace)

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A plea for peace (Friends, please give up a V for peace)

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

0 posted 2000-05-02 08:22 AM

We all have our problems,
However small, however large
Whatever they are
They bother us all.

We all have our troubles,
Someone near, someone far,
Wherever they are,
We remember them all.

Pity, we often feel for the weak,
A hand we offer to the meek,
Yet so often we go out and fight,
To show our prowess and our might,
And time and again, we know not,
What we have lost and why we had fought.

A few good men visited this planet dear,
Showed us love, taught us to live without fear,
Yet, fate handed to them manslaughter,
At the hands of goons who love to murder.

Gandhi, Lincoln, Kennedy are just a few,
There are many more heroes we never knew,
Lifelines are crooked and fate-triangles are skew,
So many deaths and yet all we say is "phew"!

Life hands us many so gifts on a platter,
Then why do we try to take it away?
It could be time that shreds life into tatters,
If we let even an opportunity to slip by,
Grab a chance, we have to when it matters,
Or we will end up remembering days gone by.
Act now, for the time has come,
Let's make time meaningful for some,
This is the moment - today is the day,
Peace and meaning can't wait another day.

Take each day as it comes,
Consider each day as a flight,
Try hard to succeed and fly,
Surely then you will reach some height.

But if by some chance you don’t,
Remember that tomorrow will always come.
Learn this well and learn this hard
That today’s efforts will pay for tomorrow’s fun.

A Crazy Monster, a.k.a Ski

A.C.Turner
Member

since 2000-04-30

Posts 83
Reading, Pa.Home of Bardfest

1 posted 2000-05-02 08:52 AM

I hope everyone reads this. Lots of truth in this. Peace ACT.

Grace
Junior Member

since 2000-04-30

Posts 19

2 posted 2000-05-02 08:59 AM

I enjoyed your poem,and you are right
there is a lot of truth in it. The world has to much fighting and killing in it. We ask WHY we can't all get along???? Keep up the Good thoughts.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-05-02 09:26 AM

Great sentiments in this, Sudhir! Well written, too!

Denise

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

4 posted 2000-05-02 11:01 AM

Thanks to you ACT, Grace and Denise, I hope many more people realise the sentiments I tried to express.

Thanks once again.

Regards,
Sudhir.

[This message has been edited by Sudhir Iyer (edited 05-02-2000).]

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