Time Immemorial

Wounded soldier, rest a while
In this hosue you’re safe from harm
Let the war fight itself
Don’t be alarmed
Though I wear a uniform of your army’s enemy
I am no enemy to you
We didn’t start this war, or the one before
All we’ve ever wanted was to love in peace
War is the mindset of those threatened by the thought
Of losing power, and control, don’t you see
We have been our worst enemy
But you and I have minds of our own
We can choose to disengange
From the collective misperception
Of the kind of war that’s being waged here
We’re living in fear
Life, like the stream running through
The many hills and plaines of landscape you
To meet the greater body of the sea
There, not diminished but built upon
It returns itself to where it came from
So can it be with you and me
We are the heart and soul of our greater whole
All we’ve ever wanted was to come home to ourselves
Since time immemorial there’s been conflict and war
Each new one greater than the one before
Don’t you see we have been our sole enemy?
But you and I can break the circle
We don’t have to feed the flames
Pointing fingers, blaming others
We are all to blame around here
For living in fear