Time Immemorial

Wounded soldier, rest a while.

In this house you鈥檙e safe from harm.

Let the war fight itself.

Don鈥檛 be alarmed-

Though I wear a uniform of your army鈥檚 enemy,

I am no enemy to you.

We didn鈥檛 start this war, or the one before.

All we鈥檝e ever wanted was to live in peace.

War is the mindset of those threatened by the thought

Of losing power, and control, don鈥檛 you see

We have been our worst enemy.

But you and I have minds of our own,

We can choose to disengage,

From the collective misperception,

Of the kind of war that鈥檚 being waged here.

We鈥檙e living in fear.

Life, like the stream running through,

The many hills and plaines of landscape you,

To meet the greater body of the sea.

There, not diminished but built upon,

It returns itself to where it came from,

So can it be with you and me.

We are the heart and soul of our greater whole.

All we鈥檝e ever wanted was to come home to ourselves.

Since time immemorial there鈥檚 been conflict and war,

Each new one greater than the one before.

Don鈥檛 you see we have been our sole enemy?

But you and I can break the circle,

We don鈥檛 have to feed the flames.

Pointing fingers, blaming others.

We are all to blame around here,

For living in fear.