We are Daughters, Mothers and Grandmothers and we create life.
We did not give birth to children to kill, maim, or fight.
We say no more devastation and shattered hearts.
We implore the government to become a part.
Of building bridges for peace,
No longer chained to the profits of war
That only reassure those who live off the ammunition,
The smokescreen of battle, the battleground of hate,
Make love not war.
We swore to honour our Brothers and Sisters .
We are Family. We are Family.
Drum this to the world, strum this to the world
Peace is possible.
War is impossible as an an antidote to unity,
Let’s become One community
Where peace is held at it’s centre,
As a sacred right,
Where we no longer have to fight
For rights to be heard or seen.
Where a department of Peacebuilding
Allows us to intervene in the
Ways of tolerance and kindness
Moving us from blindness into balance.
We are Family. We are Family .
Let’s move away from autocracy towards
A true democracy, remembering our interdependence
And making non violence a priority.
Let’s un- gun America, shun the dogs of war,
Restore communication and recalibration.
Let’s shift into the celebration of our shared humanity
Creating a culture of peace
Where the vultures who pick at the spoils of war
Are shown what hands are for –
To reach out Brother to Brother
Sister to Sister,
Father to Mother
We are Family. We are Family.
We stand for peace.
We dance the release of grief.
We cry our pain for those
Who have lost their lives
Again and again and again.
Oppression, suppression,
Depression, starvation –
Let’s move into an activation
Of solutions,
A heart based revolution.
Peace is possible ..we have to
Bring it into being
By Seeing it in our future.
Drum it into life,
Not drums of war, drums of celebration .
Not History but Her story, Our story
Not glorifying war
But honouring peace
And the release of the shackles of
Blame and shame
As we regain One Love , One Family.
We are Daughters and Mothers and Grandmothers
And we are stepping up and stepping in
A rainbow hoop of all colours and all nations
Not dying for war but Living for Peace.
We are Family. We are Family. We are Family.
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