Grey Warriors of peace against the warGreetings from around the world !
We link our minds
as once we linked our handsWe share our thoughts
as once we shared our last bullets
or our first prayers and kissesWe shine, oh yes we shine
Death so near
we fear no painWe speak, oh yes we speak
unfettered now our minds and tongues
free of the fears
that once controlled our livesWe sing, in our hearts
one growing chorus
in a richer harmonyWe see a thousand miles
through each others’ eyes
We see farther than any hawk or satelliteWe fly because we are free
We challenge every shadow
with a brighter LightWe seek the Truth
and share it eagerly
No lie unchallenged nowOur fingers dance when once our feet did
scampering with joy and fire
over the keys of our mind machinesWe laugh, oh yes
and how we laugh, together at last
in friendship beyond all our separationsWe rise together in every land
around the world stronger than any army
We are the grey warriors of peaceDo not tremble men of power
We mean no harm because we come in peace
But understand you are no longer supremeWe are the older young
But every bit as strong
in our new found wisdomWe care, because we always did
But we are learning better how to share
our love without the cruder passionWe come to share
the healing that is growing
in our mindsWe listen where once we shouted
We have learned to fashion youthful anger
into the keener tasks of actionWe spin around your poisonous bombs
the scent of flowers in the spring
a mighty web of peaceWe are the new age
Old grown young before our time
Because OUR time has come for youWe have no limits
of wealth, or health, or role, or power
because we have learned to need noneWe are the grey column, fifth column,
subversive beyond your wildest dreams
or the war technology of younger,
twisted minds.We come, grey army of the light
rising like the dawn sun through the smoke
of the ruins you are making of our world.STOP! - we ask you silently
You have gone the last inch too far
Your time has gone
and ours has come again.Hold every gun and bomb
Freeze every plane upon the ground
Your weapons of hate are useless nowAnd when you are ready
Re-tune your minds to understand
the calmer ways of peaceWe will be waiting for you
waiting with the broken children
and the bereaved
to welcome you back
- to real life.Afon Claerwen,
12 May 1999 - Balkans War....
For Katherine and Glynne, Alex and Doug, Dennis, Grayham and Bob, Alan and John and Janet and Tony Benn ... and many, many more who have joined our minds in a few short weeks to find a better way than war.
page added 28 Nov 2002