Peace is the journey

No Child Should Die by a Weapon of War!

 

Peace is the journey of humanity, not the destination.

 

Can we not see peace for what it is? Is it not true that upon rising in the morning the first desire we have is to see who is next to us? Is not our desire for companionship, driven by Peace?

 

Is not each city we live in a community of togetherness, of equality to our view of togetherness of family of friends, of business and of pleasure? Do we each not thirst to know one another, to learn from each other and thereby form bonds? Does not each family with a child not offer a place for another child? Do we not learn sharing and caring for another as a child with and from others?

 

Does not a person feel better to help another in action or in words even as simple as hello; do we not see Peace for what is?

 

Is not fear an enemy of peace? First of worry, then of anger, then building to horror and terror, do these seeds take root in discontent. Each gain of step, a reason for anger, yet with a child will you stay your hand, an exception not given a neighbor, but even to the neighbor’s child will you hold to an exception and nothing more.

 

Does not your neighbor have child, who plays here with your child and mine together whenever they can? Isn’t that play an idiosyncrasy born out of the desire to be with one another?

 

What reason then, does the idea of war have; the idea of taking from another everything, even their life? What is the purpose of this profit born of killing children, to destroy then rebuild only to destroy again the desire of Peace within a given child?

 

Why would you fear a child? If a baker steps into a market and starts a fight with another merchant, a butcher, do you fear the child of the baker? Are you condemning the child by what his father has done? Can you not see the Baker is only one who did what was done?

 

Why is it then okay to drop a bomb on city? Why is it okay to war upon a neighbor?

 

Is not war an exceptional display of baseless discrimination against another? Are not the results of war ill-will as well as victory or defeat, memories, an understanding of loss? And yet, is it not the child that brings a warrior peace upon their return to family to friends to business to life?

 

Is not Peace the best description of love returned from a child to you?

 

Is not the life of a child the very display of peace?

 

Chas