“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.”

“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”

“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”

“Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.”

“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”

“Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?”

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”