When tempers are flaring and hearts start to burn,
It’s time for the people of Earth to return.
To reason and kindness, to listening hearts,
To knowing that healing is how peace will start.
In India’s villages, France’s proud streets.
And Israel’s markets where sorrows repeat.
To Pakistan’s valleys where heartache runs deep,
Our neighbors need courage to wake from their sleep.
Across wider oceans, new voices arise,
In the States, England’s, and Canada’s gray skies.
In Germany’s halls where the old echoes hum,
Can trust be rebuilt, and our better selves come?
We’ve shouted and blamed and drawn battle lines,
We’ve traded our truth for political signs.
But truth isn’t owned by red, green, orange, or blue,
It’s living inside me, and inside of you.
Each country’s been shaken, each family has known,
The pain of division that cuts to the bone.
But bridges can form where compassion is laid,
And anger dissolves when forgiveness is made.
We don’t need agreement on every belief,
To give our neighbors a sense of relief.
For mercy is stronger than fury or pride,
And love is the banner that won’t be denied.
Let voices grow softer, let tempers unwind,
As empathy returns to unlock our minds.
All nations divided will crumble apart,
Until we recall that we share but one heart.
So breathe, fellow humans, and cease with the harm,
Our healing begins when we choose to stay calm.
Not silence or weakness, but courage refined,
To speak with compassion and open your mind.
When history looks back on this most troubled age,
May it read that we learned to turn down our rage.
Kindness returned as a long-absent psalm,
So peace then did blossom — in Our Time of Calm.
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What types of events shake your world? How do you find your way back to peace and calm?
