We give thanks and we pay tribute to the men and women who died while serving our country and keeping us safe. You sacrificed and died to secure a better future for us and for those to come. We honor that sacrifice and we celebrate your life. It is our prayer that one day, we will realize there is no need to war and fight one another because we are all one on the tapestry of life.
One Heart, One Mind
When I think of the years
The unnecessary tears
The agony, the shame
The anger and the 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 commonality in what we seek.
No matter where we live our goals and our aims
Are the same
Everybody cries
When someone they love dies.
There is no difference 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 realize
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 a Queen
Or where we live in the world.
One day, we must leave this 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 2010, Matters of the Heart
Patricia Newman-Harris
I dedicate this song as a Memorial on this Memorial Day