peace will come

Thomas Rain Crowe

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When the mothers of lions lie down with the lambs

and the fathers of governments give up their scams

and the cops they lay down their guns, to pray -

    and peace will come      one day.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When lover meets lover unafraid in the night

and the monger of races gives up the fight

and Christ comes to Earth, but to stay -

     is when Peace will come       one day.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When farmer and factoryman together turn to the earth

and the living outnumber those dying since birth

and a sweetness outlasts the scent of decay -

     is when Peace is going to come      some day.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When rockets and weapons are no more for war

and nations rejoice that no man is poor

and there are words which we don’t have to say -

     is when Peace will have arrived       one day.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When a lie is the truth and the truth does not lie

and the one who is watching no longer a spy

and the greedy escorted, away -

      is the promise of Peace that is coming      someday.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When the earth and the air are not what divide

and the difference of skin only something, inside

and as brother and sisters we rave -

     that Peace, it is coming,      one day.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When religion is taken away from its books

and the sacred is a whole lot more than it looks

and to stand in awe and ignorance is to play -

then we’ll know that Peace is on its way.

 

Peace will come.

Peace will come one day.

When there is no need for singing nor neither the song

and the chorus of numbers has long since long-gone

and only branches from wind in the trees they do sway -

is when Peace will have, finally, come one day.

Is when Peace will have, finally, come to stay.