We need to stop, just stop

Stop for a moment

Before anybody says or does anything

That may hurt anyone else

We need to be silent, just silent

Silent for a moment

Before we forever lose the blessings of songs

That grow in our hearts

We need to notice, just notice

Notice for a moment

Before the future slips away into ashes and dust of humility

We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts

To nurture, to offer, to accept

We need to be, just be

Be for a moment

Kind and gentle, innocent and trusting

Like children and lambs

Never judging or vengeful

Like the judging and the vengeful

And now, let us pray

Differently, yet together

Before there is no earth, no life

No chance for peace

Peace for our world... our world