Monday 11 May 2015

No Greater Force

NO GREATER FORCE

Echoes of a past
I never was part of,
Resound in my head
Images of what it must have
Been like
Flash before my eyes…

While I sit in
The present
Making a memory
Of the what is
Playing out
The what was
In seamless ease
There is something
I realize…

I am a warrior
A lover
A battalion
An army
I fight nothing and no one
I wish only for
Peace and friendship
Love and harmony!

Beside me
Are many others
But I do not
Clearly know
How they feel
Who they are
What runs through their minds
Flashing before their eyes...

If the scenes
Are like the ones which flicker
Before my gaze
And the sounds like those which resonate
In my head
Then I know
Alone, I am not
But part of the human army that
Loves to love
And hates to hate!

A greater force, there
Can never be in this world...

Picture a single soldier
Lover, a battalion
An army
Like me
Fighting nobody and for nothing
Merely desiring
Friendship and harmony
Love and peace
For the now
And tomorrow
Just like the heroes
Of the past I never saw,
Sang about and for…

Oh, what a world
It would be
That we’d be living in
A world that now is not!



                                                                                    FREDERIKA MENEZES

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