Globally Needed: A Nonkilling Musical Conscience
POETRY FORMAT, 30 Dec 2013
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
If in a song we hear the life-destructing verb to kill
Does it mean that its composers make life stand still?
If in a song we hear about weapons exciting lethality
Does it mean that its composers in life see no finality?
If in a song we hear about the use of drugs being glorified
Does it mean that its composers see human existence as undignified?
How can we help Humankind a Nonkilling musical conscience to cultivate?
By doing our share: for a Global Citizenship for Live-improvement let`s educate.
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Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author, among others, of the book Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai’i). Downloadable at www.nonkilling.org. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.
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