Hands held out in friendship

will not hold weapons...

Friends will not infringe on each other's human rights...

Helping hands will build and keep the peace...

Friends will not subdue each other with the force of cruel might...

Hands extended in friendship will help heal the wounds...

and will provide comfort where people suffer and hurt...

FRIENDS WILL NOT NEED TO ASK WHY...

they simply will share...

they simply will care...

and will be ready with kind and consoling words...

Friends will not abuse, assault and assail...

Friends do not brutalize, cheat or betray...

Friends know what right and good things to do and to say...

Friends will make certain that love will not fail...

Friends do not hate... Friends do not destroy...

Friends do not condemn or denounce...

Friends do not instill fear... Friends do not make war...

Friends will merely mend and seek to make whole

whatever had been bruised, bashed, beaten,

willfully and shamelessly shattered, and broken before...

We need a world of friends...nothing more!

Friends will do what needs to be done…

until with the labor of love…

 global peace will have been won.

Gerhard A. Fürst (*1936), USA, 20.01.2014