One Day a Year

 

One day a year

ONE DAY A YEAR

 

H. W. Bryce

 

Today, September 21, 2020, is

UN International Day of Peace

 

One day a year. One day a year.

Is that all peace is worth?

One day a year?                Well folks, I fear

That’s what you call a dearth.

 

When will we Humans give birth

To peace first, last and always?

When will our arms embrace Earth?

When will we follow righteous ways?

 

To save Mother Earth and us Humans…

 

Hands off! Hands off your rifle today!

There will be no shooting today.

Today is a day off from your war.

It’s nothing but peace for the day.

 

So busy are we from day to day

With our selfish day-to-day things

That we forget there’s a special day

To remember the special things.

 

Special things like newborn babes,

That are special because we live,

Special because we’ve been granted

This everyday special thing we live.

 

Yet we overlook the so-called mundane

Because the mundane fills our lives;

Sometimes we treat it like a pain,

Sometimes we think of it as hives.

 

And so we go from month to month

Missing each month’s special way

While we chase butterflies that turn into moths…

Until one day we find we’ve lost our way.

 

So let us wake up to the fact

That every day is a special day,

Answer the call, the joyous call,

To live life in a very special way.

HAPPY UN INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY

Image by Uki_71 from Pixabay

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Judge at 6th Rabindrinath Tagore Awards - International - English Poetry Contest Author of Ann, A Tribute, and Chasing a Butterfly, A story of love and loss to Acceptance with the poetry of Alzheimer's and poetry for everybody. Appears in anthologies in Canada, US, India, Mexico and Bolivia. Poetry in Ekphrastic Review and NWriteers International Networeworld Review. Member of Federation of BC Wrters, Royal City Literary Society, and Holy Wow Poets Canada. Member Writers International Network: Distinguished Poet, Distinguished writer.
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