ANNA BURGESS

Anna

burgess

A LETTER TO A TERRORIST

Will you lay down your sword, when all around you, are raising theirs and wanting you to fight.

Will you see the beauty when scares etch your heart,

and see people for their worth and their might.

Will you seek truth and not be fuelled by justice

Nor revenge, don't seek revenge

Nor terror, don't yield in the arms of terror

But seek a different path of tolerence, trial and error.

Will you lead, but not make leadership a command

Will you seek and be blind to hate

Will you stand up for the comman man

and let peace be a story of fate.

Will you talk in words of mercy, grace and merit

Let preaching be a hallowed drowning sound

Bind your fist in mine,

let love be your lost and found

Will you see me for who I am,

in all my impurities and more

even when my beliefs are different

will you forget to even the score

So will you? Will you?

Will you lay down your sword?

Lay it down for unity, humanity, for us all?

Lay it down for the people

Humankind we can be

Together we can stand as one

on this earth and the sea!!!

Anna Burgess

NEW ZEALAND