This is dedicated to the family of those lost on 9/11. We still remember those lost, we remember the cost and we continue to strive for a safer, more peaceful world for our children and our children's children.
I pray peace will be more than a word, more than a dream for some.
It will one day be for everyone.
One Heart, One Mind
When I think of the years,
The unnecessary tears
The agony, the shame
The anger and pain
That comes from being hurt again and again,
I wonder if we will ever live together peacefully?
Must we always war needlessly?
It doesn't matter who we are or where we are from
Life is the same for everyone.
If we open our hearts we will find,
We have one spirit, one heart and one mind.
When time is no more
Our differences won't matter anymore.
Regardless of what language we speak,
There is a comonality in what we seek
No mattter where we live, our goals and our aims
Are the same
Everbody cries
When someone they love dies.
There is no diffence in our tears
We share the same fears
We have different faces and different names,
But inside we are the same
It's time we realized
We have common ties.
When we get down to the heart of the matter,
That's all that matters.
Not the color of our skin,
Not where we have been, whether we are a King or Queen
Or where we live in the world
If we continue to hate
This will be our shared fate
Wars on every hand
And the deterioration of man.
We brag about how far we have come,
But if we never learn to live as one,
Our accomplishments will be as dung.
They will have no significance for anyone
We must live as a people, undefined by station or place
Inseparable by color or race.
We can't rewrite history
But we can change what is to be
When we realize that we are not just kindred spirits,
But a perfect fit
On the tapestry of mankind
With one heart and one mind,
Peace will finally be ours to find.
Copyright by P. Newman-Harrs
From the book "Matters of the Heart"