“Kingdom of Love”
In the kingdom of Love
there is no corner for hatred
to hide.
All done in darkness,
for darkness,
now exposed by Light.
In the kingdom of Love
there are no walls between
us and them.
We see no Russia, North Korea,
USA, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free,
because we’re one in Love.
In the kingdom of Love
there is no striped, starred, or barred flag
to fly and divide.
Only raised is the white flag
of surrender to the One
who is Love.
In the kingdom of Love
there is no sweeping anthem
to separate.
We rather sing soft dirges
for the dying; deep praises
for the One who is Love.
In the kingdom of Love
there is no Kim, Putin, Trump,
Kaepernick, Robert E. Lee.
Love calls us precious, chosen,
beloved, and worth
dying for.
In the kingdom of Love,
there is red, black, white,
yellow, brown, and mixed.
We see a rainbow skyward
and it says that Love
is for all of us.
In the kingdom of love
there are no chains
or classes.
We see only the hearts
of others whom
Love has us serve.
In the kingdom of Love
there is no struggling against
flesh and blood.
We see with eyes
the true enemy and know
their schemes.
In the kingdom of Love
we are sisters and brothers
of the same blood.
We are the children
of the One
who is Love.
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From “Beyond Vietnam” Speech: April 4, 1967