Peace Is Just a Brief Time Out from Killing

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Music: Pieces en Concert -- Prelude, La Tromba, Air de Diable.
By Francois Couperin.
Performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra at the Free Music Archive
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Peace is just a brief time out from killing.
Each pulse of hatred beats beyond the skin.
A war could not be won were we not willing.
Change without requires change within.
Each of us remains the cause of sin.

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