Nonkilling Peace between East and West: A Plea
POETRY FORMAT, 26 May 2014
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
When will East and West be able to live in Nonkilling Peace?
When all conflicts and wars within or between them will cease.
Will there ever be permanent peace in East and West?
Yes, when all of their countries pass the Global Sustainable Nonkilling Peace test.
What new age will such East and West Peace hail?
An age in which all human beings only on seas of dignity will sail.
When that happens, will it be the end of time?
That is a mystery that is beyond understanding yours and mine.
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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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