Let's Act Together

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

(c)Rhumour
February 25th 2009