NEVER A TIME, ALWAYS A TIME
H. W. Bryce
Never a time to hate, never a time for war
Never a time to dissemble, never to bore
Never a time to beggar your neighbour
Never a time to enemize, or to abhor
Never a time to boast or to aggrandize, for
There’s never a time to kill, nor ever a time to deceive
There’s never a time to covet your
Nneighbour’s wife, never a time to kill
Never a time for hate, nor to tread a war path
Never a time to idle nor to give in to wrath
Never a time to display undue pride
Nor to grab onto life for a free ride
Never a time to amass more than enough
For greed will lay you open to the rough
Never a time to over dine to make you fat
And lazy and lustful at looking at life as blind as a bat
Never a time to maim, never a time to blame
Never a time to destroy or to set things aflame
Never a time to kill, never a time for war.
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Always a time to plant seeds of love
Always a time to help
Always a time to lend a hand
Always a time to sing and laugh
Always time to praise your fellow man.
Always a time for sisterhood
Always and ever for a hand for peace
This is always the ideal time to love.
For respect and dignity
This is the hour to sing of praise
For humility, to put out hate’s blaze
This is the hour for humanity
For families to be and to raise
This is the hour for friendships to make
For honour to every one.
This is the hour
There is no better time than the now
To greet your fellow man in tenderness
To offer up a helping hand
There is no time better than the now
To give up your jealousies
To hand over your hatreds
To recognize the darkness in your souL
No time better than the now to give up
The killings, the hatreds, the mean spiritedness
And Give Peace a Chance to take root
And calm the earthlings, and save the planet
Never a better time because all those things
Are killing all of llife on earth, all the living things
All the of Nature and her resources for life
Never a better time for love and generosity and peace
Never a time for hate, never a time to bait
Never a time to kill, never a time for war
—HB
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