Co-operation+Tolerance =Peace

Am I the only one who feels this abyss of sorrow today?

This utter desecration of the soul?

that makes taking any human life a justified move?

In wars there are no winners

We know this

For all of time

Is our consciousness fixed on forgetting?

Everyone shouting their points of view

supporters of a point of view

banging loudly with the same tribal drum

only able to hear their mantra

therefore believing their only shared voice

We are all seeing difference everywhere

To know peace, do we need to know conflict?

For all harmony has its source as chaos

this remains my only hope, for without this

possibility ,I stuggle to understand the world

Religious points of view

could make murderers of us all

Muslim killing Muslim

Because of points of view

Happy New Year

Love Saudi Arabia

And such a line would be seen to support Iran

Do not misunderstand me

the desolation of the soul

which enacts murder

is a shared energy

of fear and the deepest wounds

of separation

all mystics know this

There is a spiral of hatred

of seperateness so deep

in our shared heart

which has nothing to do with God

Hidden plays of power, competition

in the guise of religious righteousness

All this separation we all play out,

every little bit of it is ego

and it is ego which is spinning

nations of supporters

Listen can you hear me?

some of us are weeping from afar

Not just mothers who have lost a child

but those who know

there is Only One.

And we shout hate

when we kill eachother

know that it hurts my heart

I weep not for myself

but for all of humankind

for you and I are the same

and all the time the world sleeps on

Today I cannot dance my tears away

Today I sit as the witness to all this madness

and ask for Grace to pour into these realms

that we may all remember love

That more may understand and remember that the inner worlds

reflect the outer worlds.

Love has no boundaries, no colour, no race, no religion, no gender

Love Is

Say and be the words of love instead of chanting words of difference

By being this we will purify ourselves

of all this felt separation enacted

Put down the flags

And sit around a table

talk through your differences

like a parent would make two children squabbling

For don't you know

Co-operation +Tolerance =Peace