When will we have a time
when peace can reign like
a queen worth having,
when violence dressed in
the borrowed robes of kings
will not be the crown to which
we bow down and military might
and the logic of killing will
be abhorred across all
the lands that are crossed by
the same wind and sun and dust?

The first thought shall not
be death but sovereign life.

The first action shall be to
an open hand not a fist.

I pray to the humanity in us all
that this time will come and we
will turn swords into ploughs,
and the lion will befriend the deer,
and all that divides gives way
to the royal life we share.

 

27/9/2026