The Right to Live Peacefully
POETRY FORMAT, 7 Jan 2013
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
If the Right to Life and the Right to Peace we combine
a new, deeply humanizing right will be yours and mine
We would have the right to live in peace
knowing that conflicts may never cease
If the right to live and the right to peace are integrated
the dignity of human rights and peace will be elevated
Citizens everywhere would know what such integrated right would imply:
With the principle of living nonviolently, nonkillingly all would have to comply
Let´s make a plea for the right to live peacefully[
and do our share for that right to be honored globally
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Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author, among others, of the book Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai’i). Downloadable at www.nonkilling.org. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.
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