Peace on Our Terms

PEACE ON OUR TERMS

Yes, we can live in peace, as long as I am in control.

You mediate, but can only hear your conscience

That's the voice of your God.

You talk of compromise, but then you kill our sons.

Your fireballs will sterilise our cities.

So when your mediator speaks, he must be silenced

In the name of our God.

Yes, we could compromise, when you're willing to concede

That if you're partly right, then I'm not wholly wrong.

That's the voice of reason.

But guided by our prejudice, we still avenge our sons,

With reason deafened by the voice

Of our entrenched beliefs.

But, what of those final moments

When all our strengths have gone

Will we then hear a voice that whispers.........

......."I am the sound of Peace".