{"id":217723,"date":"2022-08-08T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217723"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T09:39:18","slug":"peace-are-you-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/peace-are-you-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Are You There?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Peace,
\nAre you there?
\nPeace, speak to me
\nWhisper in my ear
\nAre you there?<\/p>\n

Peace,
\nTell me what I need to know
\nTell me how to lead the way
\nPeace,
\nOnly you can save
\nUs from more tragedy<\/p>\n

Amidst the rubble
\nAmidst the ruins
\nIf you are there, please rise up<\/p>\n

As bodies pile up
\nI find myself sinking
\nIf you are there, please rise up<\/p>\n

Don’t come alone
\nWe need support
\nWe need multitudes who believe in you
\nWho will stand by you
\nAnd act through you<\/p>\n

Not more who mount and deploy troops
\nManufacture, deal, and use arms
\nAnd leave chaos in their wake<\/p>\n

Not more who degrade environments
\nAnd destroy livelihoods<\/p>\n

Not more who ruin cultures
\nDisplace communities,
\nDivide families and take loved ones
\nAnd leave hurt and hate to cinder<\/p>\n

Not more who pulverize institutions
\nSabotage schools
\nAnd leave dreams to smolder in the ashes<\/p>\n

We need multitudes who believe in social justice
\nAct in love
\nInsist on nonviolence
\nCommit to nonkilling
\nInvest in peacebuilding<\/p>\n

Peace,
\nAre you there?
\nWe need you urgently
\nDo you hear?<\/p>\n

___<\/em>________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Jocelyn Wright is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mokpo National University, South Korea, where she has served for over 13 years. Her main areas of academic interest are peace linguistics and peace language education. Email: jocelynmnu@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peace,
\nAre you there?
\nPeace, speak to me
\nWhisper in my ear
\nAre you there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":208925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[119,868],"class_list":["post-217723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-peace","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}