Introduction
The world today is in chaos. This is what the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes will call, the state of war where man is in war against each other; Man has become a wolf to his fellow man. One might ask why is there chaos in the world: why is it there is no peace? It is not out of place to say that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was right when he noticed that what destroyed man's original state of nature was the acquisition of property. This is basically caused by the greediness in human nature.
Man as a being is naturally selfish. This selfishness together with the will to rule is what causes dissension, chaos, war strife, man inhumanity to man, etc in the world. Man against man, nation against nation, state against state, religion against religion, country against country, brother against brother, no one wants the other to dominate, have led to the survival of the fittest. It is high time we realized that we are not animal rather we are human beings who have reasons.
No matter our differences, we can live together in harmony and in peace. Let there be peace, for if there is no peace, the world which is created without our awareness, might be destroyed by us especially now science is prevailing in the area of technology. According to Perry Stone, we might be here waiting for God to come and destroy the world not knowing that we are gradually destroying the world and will destroy it ourselves even before Christ comes. If there is no peace, the world will collapse. Recognizing the essentiality of PEACE, poets from different parts of the world, call on us, our country and society to make peace reign. Let there be peace: Peace in the world, our heart, in our homes and everywhere.
Let There Be Peace
©Adejoh Jeremiah Omojo
Oh my country Nigeria!
Bedevilled by outrageous vices,
Cretinised by rampaging calamities
That destroys it's serenity.
Bandits getting pleasure from genocides,
Government legalising homicides,
Neighbours constantly at war,
Even the body now decides to fight itself.
Citizens are now regular migrants;
A good night sleep has gone on sabbatical.
The brain now lives in fear,
While the boy now, reacts to the slightest of sounds
Secessionist are now gaining grounds,
Reforms are no longer contemplated.
Disaster is now a way of life,
Crimes have found their territories in ours.
For how long will we continue like this?
It's time we come together and reason with each other.
Let's create a town for Dialogue,
And give peace a home to dwell.
©MAJOD WRITES
©Ali Aliu-Dukati
Life skills
In my new life when I was
Neither the moon nor the sun bothers me
Everything I had and had
They disappeared somewhere high in the sky
Money life and society
Everything I have left
It is the leaf and love
Inspiration and poetry
Accompanied by loneliness
With a fountain pen in hand
I express my pain
Like a crownless king
The wealth I had
It was just a temptation
And life I thought was happy
It made me cry
All that society
Which I thought was appropriate
Disappeared turned into wind
And it finally disappeared like dust
I thought I was good
When someone broke someone’s heart
Now I thought it once was not the weather
That I have everything to suffer
But step by step
He was touched with compassion
I enjoyed her pain that gripped me
I also learned many things about happiness
I learned how to value the future
All the bad things, and the good in life
I learned what compassion is
And where is the real wealth
I realized we had life and society
You have to shape it and think for yourself
But all is in vain until they come
If you love God the traitor must ignore him
Wisdom is the test of life
Being happy is her jewel
If you lack self-happiness
Life is hard full of tears and tears
John Success
Peace
I have been struggling for many years
Just to bring a peaceful life to me and community
I am hunger for peace
I have sacrificed many things for peace.
Having a peaceful life
Having a peaceful mind
Having a peaceful country
Is all about very important
I am a peace dreamer
I am a peace lover
I am a fighter for peace
Peace is the biggest key of success.
I had lost many lives for peace
My mother and sister raped in struggle of peace
Eventually we overcame
Now we are passing a peaceful life.
Written by Anayat Ullah
Country myanmar
Have been living my years
Of pain & struggles, fighting all
Kind of vices, dying in the adversities of the unknown
Years rolls into months
Months into weeks
Weeks into days
I have not had peace
From the day I was born
I have been fighting, up to now
Am still fighting. Fighting for what??
Fighting for the unknown
I need peace but where can I get it
If not fight for the peace, which is a free gift to humanity
The peace I sought are just illusions of imaginary
There is no peace but everyone need peace
Sivadas Swami Matam
Peace
A piece of peace always needed everybody to leave peacefully.
A life without peace menace a sky without sun and stars.
Almost all are peace lovers in the entire universe.
Who are following old and out of dated principles,
Which are not really matched by the moderns’ days.
They are destroying the peace because they are promoting
Antinationalism and terrorism among the poor society.
Few are blindly following them due to the poor brain.
The few poets and writers strongly react through their creations.
The promoters of violence are always trying to root out poets and writers.
But who are really committed never setback because they are the
Real guardians always safeguard peace and unity among the human society.
If I write and speak 1000 times about the word peace, never bring any peace.
Instead we needed to become more practical, always needed to think and execute
The serious step to establish peace among our society.
Peace needed to form from the mind of human beings.
To uplift the mind of men and women, we needed to mold an educational society.
Education helps to read and accept, science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy etc.
Excellent knowledge in science helps to brighten our life.
In short, mind always produces peace, to uplift the mind we need to educate our mind.
Theophilus Katon Chidonku
My heart keeps wandering
Trouble fills my heart
While on this journey of earth
I was in a boat
The wind began to blow
The storm became powerful
The world became unstable
The boat began to sink
I was grieved in fear
I thought the world will end
Because no one could save me
Then I heard a voice
Let there be peace
His word came with authority and power
And the wind and storm
Stood still
Now my fear turns to faith
My heart fill with joy
This is the power of peace
precious pen
OH mother land!
Deprived of peace, thy offspring who was bounded with the lies of togetherness now scattered across the globe.
The little fire of bitterness with which your offspring was being nurtured with, has now become a conflagration of hate and utmost bitterness.
Oh mother land!
The tale is being told already, of the blood shed of your offsprings. The legalization of homicide by the people who we look up to.
The flag drips from the blood of thy offsprings, it's a failure and a shame if a mother fails to protect her own.
Oh mother land!
Your children solicitate for peace.
For a home is no longer a home, when chaos and injustice rules the center table.
© Samad Ishola Mukaila
Pen name: Good Name
To the minds that gets hurt with their conflicting thoughts,
With the voices that wail in agony,
And eyes that wear coat of pains and bleed tears.
I've come on to you,
Let there be me.
To the lands with red rivers that fountain from bloodsheds,
Where men design weapons mainly to hunt their brothers,
Where men assault and rape their sisters for pleasure.
The land where evil lurks in its nights and no time for mind rest.
Let me rule over your land,
Let there be me.
To the hatred that beats in man's heart,
That takes over their loving eyesight,
Making diversity appears as barrier to associate,
Turning colours, believes, religions, cultures to cause for conflict.
Hatred here I come,
Let there be me.
Oh you, the advocate of fracas!
Who is more better for you than me?
I bring to you harmony, love and unity,
Regardless of men and their diversities.
Leave the hatred, conflict and embrace me,
Let there be me,
I am PEACE!
©️ Favour Benibo
In the hands of regret has my peace been sold.
Each time my eyes are closed, my past flashes
Before my eyes,
I feel the hate and pain
burning up in my heart
And soul.
My Peace siezed the moment I let u into my heart, indeed my peace eluded me, my prayer each day is let there be peace in my mind, Lord help me.
©️ Matthew Edeh Sunday
Good bye to the guns and knives,
Let our shames be gone and let our peace be won.
Good bye to the household of greed,
We are setting off with a new deed.
Good bye to the race of racism,
For the forest doesn't carry one tree.
Good bye to the treat of threat,
We would think peace for all to find rest.
It is due we empty our cups,
Our hearts would stand tall like the mountains.
We are ready to uphold a new dawn,
In fullness and newness.
We are moving to our new home,
An era where Love would reign.
(C) Afrose Saad
In this tumultuous billious world
Where greed, atrocities and power dwell
For peace is lost like a diamond in the rough
Scrimping and scraping to find it is tough
Seems like when we crawl to our grave
Peace await like a glistening brave
When minds are warped and stagnancy prevails
And all the people miserably wail
For bottomless pockets and maggots breed
Bingeing and gobbling like vultures feed
For humans must humane be
Then only there be hope you see
To treat each other with love and care
For that's when all be fair
When love that conquers will masquerade
While peace will march in a kaleidoscopic parade
\Oh dear God! Can you make realm of peace?
Can't you shower thy blessing drops?
We have lost so many souls,
We need to conquer this plot.
Let peace fall at all sites
Pandemic attacks can't control this earth anymore.
Please dear God!!!!
Show us the ray of divine solution.
How can we crush that demon's heart?
Your lovely art is shattered---
You need to show up anyway.
We are your devotees.
Pardon us once more.
Let us hold the hands of love,
To make the beautiful earth.
Where butterflies rise from all sites,
To send lovely news from earth to divine.
@peacewrites
The world is raging
Soul are returning
The mighty are falling
Our leaders are slagging
Let_ there_ be_ peace
Our children are crying
Our youths are dying
Our mothers are praying
Our heroes are pleading
Let_ there_ be_ peace
©️Indomitable
Can I take you down this path?
Back to our past
Where sorrow lies not
Our world of smiles
And piles of peace and style
Permit me to share with you
That dad never raised a voice at mum
Nor a finger in anger
Hear this too
Poverty beat the drum
Dad's endless toils
And muffled groans
Appreciates no more
Things has changed,we are grown
He is aware ,he spends more
Expenditure ruthlessly exceeding income
Poverty became the unwanted visitor
And he brought no peace to my home .
We all fought within in sheer vigour
@ Aaron Angela
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The gunshots blew
The houses went ablaze
Everyone sorting for coverage
' The war had just began' a voice triumphed.
Mother's falling helplessly to the ground for their children have been destroyed in laughter
Their husbands stabbed hardly.
"We want war
We thirst for war
Until we taste war we will forever remain thirsty" the murderer's echoed in jubilation
Let there be peace we plead
for we are empty
Our family has been taken away from us
You slaughtered our children in laughter
You killed our husbands painfully
What war do you seek?
When we are right under your foot
Please give us peace and know peace.
MD ROHIM
Why we feel so unsafe to day because of terrors and horrors laying our way. All our happiness gone away. At present, What we all need is peace , peace and peace....
Along with the progress of science,Is the killing is our conscience,we run for money ,we run for fame, killing and murdering has become a game, At present we all need is peace , peace and peace.....
We surrounded by problems, worries and burden of troubles, each carries, power has come over our life, Imagine how hardly a man survives, At present what we need is peace , peace and peace.....
©Unknown Identity
We have had enough of war
Which has kept us sour
There have been no progress
All our achievement has been digressed
Our fellow independent nation
Has passed this dimension
We are kept in our darkness
As a result of our blindness;
Oh let there be peace
Let's have our ease
Let's make a great progress
By standing in total oneness
Let's start from our individuals
Then we can make it visual
With each person being a part
Let's try not to go apart
Let's live together in peace
And not breaking in pieces
And we can be united as one.
AJACHUNONWU MUNACHI ABUCHI
The beat of the drum is far near us.
Who can stand close near to Frith?
Sounds of asylum I hear far off the earth
Who will send a message to the mother earth
Who will blow the sound for affection
Who will transform our fear into peace
Who will quench the fire of oppression segregation and apartheid
The colour of their seat is bloody
The venom in their mouth is decept
Cut off their kleptomaniac fingers and grant us peace
Burn off their gluttonous gutter and let the drain of love drop
Let all church rat sings for love than clapping for tithes
Seek for togetherness oh thee the belfry on the tower
Sounds of unity suit it's rhyme
Peace beget love as it's send forth progress
In the beginning I overheard the creator order the light to lit
Solicit oh all the church hills and plead for Peace
We are the peace to the world
Acceptance accord oneness
No differs in tribe religious colour race
Accept us and we shall grant your peace..........
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