A Cry for Resolve:Peace Cannot Be Obtained Without Sacrifice
What is man, if not to learn from his own mistakes? What is man, if not to see past pettiness and greed? What is man, if not to reach out and grab hold of that which one believes is an unobtainable dream?
Are we not a race of peoples that live and thrive on one planet, one globe . . . in one universe? Are we not a people that are destined for greatness? Are we not born with the same dreams as naked babes? Is it not through our fathers, and their fathers, and their fathers before them that we see what we are shown and understand that which is told?
Is it not possible to reach with our own wisdom, to grasp with our own understanding that which is most important to our lives? Through one single ideal, our world can change. Our passions can be unified. Our purposes driven to newer levels that brings peace and not division. It is through one single ideal that the world can find that which is most valued above any other. Hope.
It is not in our children that hope is born, but it is in them that hope can survive. How can one hope when hunger impoverishes them? How can one hope when disease ravages them? How can one hope when they become nothing more than a forgotten generation, lost and alone?
Peaceful resolve can bore hope. It can create a new path . . . a better path. One without violence or war, without death or desolation. Hope can lie in our children . . . with one, single, ideal.
With great resolve may we turn our faces from our hate, from our discrimination of unlike kind. With great resolve may we persevere through that which inhumanly divides us. And may we understand what is truth, what is real, and what is perfect.
May it never be said that we did not strive for that which seemed impossible. When one can drive another to see past the walls of fear, destruction, desolation, and our own self made destitution. When one can push another to see past their own agendas . . . may it never be said that we did not strive for something greater. May it never be said that we did not strive for the tangible, for a world without fear or divide, for a world not much unlike our own; but yet so far strayed from its destined course.
May our differences divide us so? So far from our paths that the road to peace becomes unattainable?
Let it be that which is resolved not only in our minds, but in our hearts. Must we now make amends for the notorieties of our brethren, of our fathers, of our kin.
