Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man:
That death will have no dominion
That children will not be butchered
That their limbs will not be torn from their bodies
And be mangled
That young girls will not be violated and violated again
That corpses will not pile on top of each other
Until they hide the face of heaven
That houses and buildings will not be bombed into rubble
That cities and towns will not be razed to the ground
That monuments and antiquities will not be smashed into nothingness
That civilizations will not be fed to fires and the wormholes of doom.
Let this Rainbow be a covenant between man and man:
That life not death will have dominion
That freedom not slavery
Will be the destiny of the enslaved
That justice not oppression will prevail
That the peoples walking in darkness
Will be permitted to seek the light
That the peoples in the grip of annihilation
Will be saved and cherished
That they will be nurtured by compassion until
They raise their voices to sing their anthem to joy.
Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man:
That the weapons and instruments of destruction
Will be silenced
So that we can hear the song of the earth
So that we can breathe the sacredness of the air
So that we can see the sun sets and the sun rises
So that we can touch every living thing.
Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man:
That peace will heal
That peace will seam what was rent
That peace will redeem
That peace will build
That peace will close the fissure in time
That peace will have dominion.
Alisar Iram April 2013
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