PEACE

Beautiful white dove
You make us love,
You teach us to share,
To be helpful and care.
War isn't funny,
And it doesn't make people happy.
Instead it makes people cry
And children die.
Earth should be a good place,
Where it doesn't exist that you are disqualified for your race.
A place where you are accepted as who you are,
And without friends cannot go far.
People should learn how peace is joyful,
So that someday Earth could be peaceful.

By Solange Bramer, 2008 (published in poetry rivals' collection 2009, A waltz on the wing)