Ode to Peace☮

Ode to Peace

For the truth, for the laughter, for the light, for the beauty,

For birds that fly in the eyes of a child,

By the cleansing of the wind, by the acts of purity,

For the joy, for the wine, for the music, for the dance,

By the soft melody of the rumor of the streams,

By the glow of the summer, by the blue of the clear day,

For the flowers that enamel the fields, for the peace of the pastures,

For the accuracy of the roses, for the wisdom,

For the pearls that drip from the eyes of lovers,

For the wonders that are true in dreams,

For love, for freedom, for radiant things,

By the ripe aromas of soft autumns,

For the future morning of the big transparent,

By the maternal and fertile bowels of the earth,

By the tears of the mothers whom bloody clouds

They rapture their children to the filthiness of war,

I conjure you, O peace, I invoke you, O benign,

O Holy One, O talisman against fierce industry.

With your hands waving the flags of wrath,

With your hide from the bomb and the tormentor,

Open the doors of history,

let Life pass!