Where the Peaceful Dream Unfurled
Was it just imagining
Which brought these eyes to see inside
Another world
We could have realised
A different story
For all our lives
Looking into this stolen world
Where the peaceful dream has unfurled
Its banner of love beneath the sun
A flag of truce for everyone
The journey of our hearts becomes celebration
When all is gathered into one
A birth in unity
Of this global family
Looking into a broken crystal sphere
Only turns on me its dark reminder
Of what we all have become
Peopled with lives of separation
So filled with their neighbours fear
Grabbing all they think they need
Appeasing someone else’s greed
Their solitude in slavery
To the markets of their luxury
While other faces shine with a tarnished love
Are hoping for the pious judgement day to come
So their elite self-righteous sense of justification
Can gloat in contentment and damnation over the wicked ones
And please themselves with all the evil they have never done
But smiling still with condemnation as they watch
Their brothers and sisters
Burn
And on the tiny gang-land street
Where colours run with gangster feet
The agonies of our divided homelands
Are played upon a smaller stage
Violence by the guns divide
Rules to keep the urban warriors small
Keep them in their skin deep cultures
Keep them fighting for the scrapes let fall
From the tables of wealthy vultures
Usurped by those who wanted more than would suffice
They sold us back ourselves for a price
They are smiling in our death
Killing each other for the chance
The less we are
The more there is left
To fight over
Keep us fighting in every way
For a better life some day
In these lives we do not own
With all its empty promise we are shown
Robbed from us so long ago
We were redesigned and then re-sold
Is now the only way
We have ever known
Looking into this stolen world
None of us seem to be human anymore
Our future confiscated by the fear of fear
Destroying all the things we hold so dear
So love can not stretch beyond the wall
To the faces of the starving poor
And extend our helping hand
To us all
Was it just your imagining
Which brought my eyes to see inside
Another world
We could have realised
A different story
For all our lives
Looking into this stolen world
Where the peaceful dream did unfurl
All the banners of its love beneath the sun
Became a flag of trust for everyone
Did the journey of our hearts become
When all were gathered into celebration
The birth of this global family
In a unity of one
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2008
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