Let There Be Peace
Introduction
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Let There Be Peace
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 5 Jan 2015
Poet Lemn Sissay MBE's work, 'Let there be peace', engraved on the University's Creative Arts Building (Image]). The giant 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem was unveiled in October 2014 (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/poet-lemn-sissay-unveils-giant-7878258 Huddersfield Daily Examiner). LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken things. Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals. Let the Aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addis before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames For his dreams. Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water. Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a Shhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lemn Sissay MBE
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