Danijela Ćuk

 **LET PEACE LIVE ON**

Let peace live on — we’ve had enough of war,

every soul, every child deserves so much more:

to live in calm, to breathe with ease,

yet pain runs deep in days like these.

Too many dreams have been undone,

too many lives by war outrun.

We were not born to fight and fall,

but to love, to hope, to live through all.

No hand has the right, none at all,

to crush our dreams, to make them small.

Enough of envy ruling hearts,

there’s room for all beneath these stars.

No need for tears that freely stream,

nor innocent lives forced to flee unseen.

Each day the news repeats the same —

how hatred poisons hearts with flame,

how children lose their days of light,

as war erases every smile in sight.

Let’s end the wars, let peace arise,

be human — see through kinder eyes.

Let love unite both me and you,

and build a world more just and true.

Let’s show, beyond all doubt and fear,

that love is stronger, always, here.

Danijela Ćuk 

Croatia