Where there is no rain - of tears <br />Where there is no roar - of lips <br />A lull settled forth <br />In the absence of a babel of voices <br />When one expansive silence saturates <br />The receptive senses <br />And a million sentiments disappear <br />To the meditation of the soul <br />A place of one identity <br />Where there is no eye for an eye <br />Or a throat for a throat <br />Just a shoulder to a shoulder <br />And a lip to a lip <br /> <br />A single horizon sans the tide of dominion <br />And the whimper of subjugation <br />A place of absences <br />Of color, of creed, of greed, of gender, of possession <br />Filled by the universal mortar of love <br />Where there are no forces or counter-forces <br />Just the perfect poise of equilibrium <br />Where creatures of one universal tree <br />Form the fruits of evolution <br />To feed each other - to symbiose in love <br /> <br />A place unified by resonating hearts <br />Sometimes by an article of paper <br />As borders fade and maps are torn <br />Where saliva is imprinted on cheeks <br />And fraternity is exchanged by a bridge of palms <br />Dream of every citizen and of every soldier <br />A fundamental human right fragmented <br />By the mosaic of color and creed <br />Where the voices of polarized gods speak louder <br />Than the whispers of the conscience <br /> <br />Peace, the most precious state of destiny <br />Yet the loneliest place in history<br /><br />Dilantha Gunawardana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-peace-10/
