BEFORE THE BOMBS

 

Have you ever noticed how people gather together..

comfort and help each other…after the bombs have dropped

Family, friends, neighbors, strangers…hugging

consoling one another as they search through the rubble 

after the the bombs have dropped.

People grieving together…leaning on each other

trying to deal with unspeakable loss and sorrow…

after the bombs have dropped

Mother’s, fathers, children…innocent victims of war and hatred…

walking side by side…hand in hand…

trying desperately to understand…

after the bombs have dropped. 

Have you ever thought to yourself…

how throughout Earth’s history

this fighting among ourselves has gone on too long?

That perhaps we have it backwards…

perhaps we have it all wrong.

What if we made an effort…to gather together

comfort and help each other…

before the bombs are dropped

What if family, friends, neighbors, strangers 

would hug and console each other

before the bombs are dropped

What if before we dropped our bombs:

we made an effort to see all people of the world as one family 

and Earth as one land…

What if before we dropped our bombs

we tried walking…side by side…together…hand in hand.

If we all made an effort before we drop our bombs

to know, understand and love each other…

to pick each other up…when we fall…

Then…and only then

as one family…as one Earth 

there would never be a reason

to create and our bombs again.