Peace Prayer

 

I pray to the Unity

that becomes Two for love's sake

while remaining One.

O Mother of Eternity, Almighty Father,

Christ Sophia, Rachman i'Rahim,

O Shiva Shakti, El Shaddai, 

entwined upon my spine,

O Magdalena, Tower of Myrrh,

Melchizedek of the Parliament 

of Starlight pouring 

through my vagus nerve: 

I breathe in your Love

and breathe out Love to all the earth.

I breathe in your Beauty

and breathe out Beauty to all the earth.

I breathe in your Healing

and breathe out Healing to all the earth.

I breathe in your Abundance

and breathe out Abundance to all the earth.

By the authority and grace

of a single exhalation,

I abolish and dissolve every border

drawn by politicians and kings,

priests and ayatollahs,

whose maps live only in the mind.

And by the outrageous invincible audacity

of one humble breath,

I declare that from this New Moon on,

Earth's only boundaries 

shall be curves, the round and oval,

tree rings, seeds, globes of toadstool 

and mollusk spiral, furrows in loam,

thigh-swollen, bosom-heaved,

tenderly kneaded by gravity,

bathing in undulations of stone.

Rivers, mountains, deserts, shores.

And even these, mostly, 

in the prudence of time,

shall be swept away by wind and rain.

~Painting, 'Hope,' by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour