Invest in World Peace or World War?

This is a poem below I wrote some years ago and found now.  I felt to repost it.  It is for those who know not peace.  We all get to choose.

This video can be played in the background as you read the poem.  It is for those engaged in conflict and war.  Know I have witnessed your suffering.  We can end your suffering but you have to look at the battles you are waging.  Find your brothers in alms. They will show you the way to peace.  It is not a ideal it is who you are when you stop fighting.  It is when you disarm you will live. It is in our vulnerability that we find our power.  The world is a mirror and what you put out comes back.  Do not doubt the power of love, it is not a motherhood statement, it works.  Look at the person who saves the child, the friend and the incredible selflessness that comes from that.  Yet if we harm another it returns in PTSD and nightmares.  I wish for you to find peace with all my heart.  As peace wishes to reach for you.

I send love to you.

Some thoughts to consider:

What if – peace is who you are in truth?
What if, the enemy, like you, wants peace?
What if, you like me, want peace?
What if we are same same but different?
What if I am you?
What if – what you do to another returns to the self? Some call this karma albeit a universal law of cause and effect.
What if – we are fighting ourselves?  (conscience)
What if – we blame the other as we are not able to face what we do?
What if – we are in denial of our own violence and looking for enemies to distract from the pain that just expands with more wars?
What if you are killing your own family?  Can you look deep into that statement, for these is truth in it.  I say that with a profound sense of love for those invested in this area. It is extremely painful.

I sit with you when you are alone and hold your hand to say I feel your pain and love comes around you.

You did your best.

You are innocent.

You are forgiven.

Investing in World Peace

Peace is not in the investment portfolio,

Peace is not a futures option,

Peace is not profitable,

Yet we all profit from peace.

The mechanism of supply and demand,

Market wants rather than needs,

It is how we determine value.

Wealth becomes reward,

Status becomes success,

Belonging is part of the club,

For when one is seen to be,

The wheels of industry keep turning.

For the industrial military complex is a valued asset,

It is a psychological complex deeply divided,

A million dollars a minute is the investment portfolio that yields real returns,

Profits over people,

Pain over conflict resolution,

As we build smart bombs that discriminate,

We explode bunker busters (mini nukes) that cause cancer,

We destroy whole cities to maximize shock and burn tactics,

We build unmanned drones to minimize body bags for CNN,

We place power in the service of force,

And in the end we bill this as another peace process,

Yet this is not the true face of peace,

Peace comes in service as a true friend,

For the benefit of all.

Peace education is investing in your children

It is an intangible,

An untouchable,

It can’t be displayed as an act of pride,

For the value cannot be seen as a medium of exchange,

It is generated through gentle acts of kindness,

It is built through positive affirmation of ourselves and each other,

Through responding, caring, nurturing,

Sounds like a motherhood statement,

For there is seldom recognition in real service with a smile,

Which is how you know best interest is placed above self interest,

Self interest will always promote itself and justify cruel acts.

For when we value honesty over deception,

When we value working together rather than causing division for the other is wrong,

When we value freedom of speech over differing perspectives as democracy,

When we value what is real rather than material gain,

We will find peace emerges as a pearl from the hard shell,

We see the purpose rather than plan,

We feel the enjoyment rather than yield,

For one does not need profit to motivate when the reward is the service itself.

For what we truly value we invest in,

Peace is the middle path that is inclusive,

For there are no winners or losers,

There are no failures or successes,

Simply differences that reflect diversity,

Where the level playing field is seen as equal opportunity,

There is no superiority or inferiority,

When every person is unique.

For peace is non discriminating,

For it will never argue to win,

Simply learn from opponents as teachers,

As this is the spirit of acceptance,

It is the 4 noble truths,

It is the 4 way test of truth, fairness, goodwill, friendship and true benefit,

For this is the free market not for sale,

As peace is the only investment that is sustainable if we are to have a future to invest in.