When Will There Be Peace
*copyright 3/2011 j. milici, all rights reserved
When will there be freedom
When will there be peace
When will there be showing
the love each human seeks?
I know one day there will freedom
I know one day there will be peace
He holds the world in open palms
Waits and wants to heal us.
My heart is bleeding, bleeding,
I am pleading tearfully pleading
Might that day dawn to stop the parade
of dead in coffins silent passing while
the world weeps and mourns?
There is no peace when there is war
There is no love where hate is heartless
There can't be joy amid the blood of babies
Or from a suffering mothers wails
unnoticed in the silence.
I know one day there will freedom
I know one day there will peace
He holds the world in his open palms
Waiting to heal us.
There's no rest for the weary traveler
who sees the blood of bomb blasts
soak white sheets red in the slaughter
that drowns out all our laughter with
the sound of deathly silence.
the sound of deathly silence.
I cannot see the sunrise
or know of others sorrows
or hear the cries of widows
screaming pity in my ears!
I can't sleep tonight and
I can't keep silent vigil
I can't awake to hear fright
death's numbers on airwaves
or murdered soldier tolls
the wails of orphaned babies
or feel a mothers emptiness
inside her aching soul!
When will it be finished?
When will the world find Peace?
How will we find each other
In a place where only hatred keeps
the angry hearts alive to die
while history speaks in lies?
I know one day there will be freedom
I know one day there will be peace
He holds the world in his open palm
Waiting and wanting to heal us.
Will we let Him?
Will we let Him heal us?