Peace Love and Happiness
What this world needs now is a big dollop of love
Spread like honey over toast
A cuddle and a hug with the warmth of a cosy bath
That stretches from coast to coast
A welcoming smile and a helping hand
To show we all do really care
The gentleness of touch of a passing breeze
To show we’re always there
What this world needs is peace and harmony
To melt away the greed
A shared drink and meal with tinkling laugh
To show we are agreed
For love can thaw the hardest heart
If we put aside our hate
If we join together with respect and pride
We can surely improve our fate
Peace love and happiness
Is that too much to ask?
I’ll join with you if you’ll join with me
Together there’s a task.
It’s a job that is worth doing
To improve our sad old world
Peace love and happiness
Is worth much more than gold
Opher 17.1.15
There is not a problem between people – if we put religion and politics aside. There is a problem with poverty, greed, nationalism, selfishness, arrogance, intolerance, tribalism, unfairness, poverty, injustice, violence, hatred, inequality, oppression, exploitation, ignorance ……………. and all the other things that powerful sociopaths use in order to divide and rule.
Those who seek power and wealth exploit our passions and divert them to their own ends.
It is time we recognised the psychopaths and sociopaths for who they are and stopped voting them in, listening to them and following them. We like out leaders strong and black and white. Unfortunately that plays right into the hands of fascists, tyrants and cynical manipulators who hide behind a cloak of religion or politics.
The world is full of big issues.
There is nothing that we cannot address and solve. We do not have to run on greed, hatred, intolerance and war. There is a better way!
This is a poem about that positive zeitgeist. We can change the world:
First one person believes it – then two – and before you know it you have a positive zeitgeist movement!