Peace Is a Dream
I pray for peace, asking for God's blessing;
for our need has never been so pressing.
Wars and skirmishes are on the increase;
asking for God's blessing, I pray for peace.
Devastated by war, cities crumble,
treading on bodies; the injured stumble.
And Hope dwindles, until there is no more;
cities crumble, devastated by war.
Brutalized and starved, the women are raped,
for their men died fighting; no one escaped.
As newly gained territories get carved,
the women are raped, brutalized, and starved.
Children die mutilated and abused;
when military tensions aren't diffused.
There are no morals when the bullets fly,
mutilated and abused; children die.
Peace is a dream; war is reality;
politicians deal in hyperbole.
Inflated egos stifle a child's scream;
war is reality; peace is a dream.
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