Let's Act Together

[Dave D Poet Rhumour]

Friends of many nations 

We gather here to say 

Let's act together as if 

 We're one big family today 

For all our children's futures

Should be held in our own hands

Not bartered by some business

Or maimed by armies on our lands
This world is large but finite

We have no more room to grow

The food we need for all to eat

Must come from what we sow
And if we divert our efforts  

From battles over dwindling oil

And make tractors now not missiles

Then we can make futures from our toil
Lets praise the men of peace now

Let Mandela be the mold

In which we cast our values

So our children may grow old
No rights can be the greater

Than the one to live in peace

I'm sure that all who read this

Want hostilities to cease
Far days may come the sooner

If we all hold fast and shout

Stop the deaths by slaughter

By starvation and by drought 

©Rhumour

February 25th 2009