Peace One Day

September 21st is the UN’s international day of ceasefire and non-violence and, in honour of the event, I am pleased to report The Third Estate has started no new wars today. Instead, I shall grace you with a very, very old poem I wrote many years ago on September 21st.

PEACE ONE DAY

From the West Bank to East Berlin,
Hiroshima to Ho-Chi-Minh,
From the Boer War to East Timor,
Kosovo to Alamo -
Hear the victims cry in pain,
Turn the page, another stain
History book’s been written red,
Another people, broken – bled,
Another chance for peace
Dead,
Dead.

From Ypres fields to Stalingrad,
Falklands to the old Yugoslav,
From Afghanistan to Sudan,
North Korea to Chechnya,
Watch the poppies, trodden to mud,
See the Tigris, run with blood.
Another war begins to rage,
Don’t be quick to turn the page.
Change must come, come what may,
Together we’ll look for another way,
Together we’ll make peace,
One Day.