☮️☮️☮️ 𝑰𝑭 𝒀𝑶𝑼...☮️☮️☮️☮️
If you believe that a smile is more than a weapon,
If you believe in the power of an offered hand,
If you believe that what brings people together is more important than what divides them, ...
If you believe that being different is an asset and not a danger,
If you know how to look at the other with a touch of love,
If you know how to prefer hope to suspicion...
If you feel that it is up to you to take the first step rather than the other,
If the look of a child still manages to disarm your heart,
If you can rejoice in the joy of your neighbor,
If the injustice that strikes others revolts you as much as the one you suffer,
If you see the stranger as a brother who is offered to you,
If you know how to accept that another does you a favor,
If you share your bread and know how to add a piece of your heart to it,
If you believe that forgiveness goes further than revenge...
If you know how to sing the happiness of others and dance their joy,
If you can listen to the unfortunate one who wastes your time and keep smiling,
If you know how to accept criticism and make the most of it without defending yourself,
If you know how to welcome and adopt an opinion different from your own...
If you refuse to beat your chest on others,
If for you the other is first a brother,
If anger is for you a weakness, not a proof of strength,
If you prefer to be wronged than to do wrong to someone,
If you refuse to let the flood come after you,
If you side with the poor and the oppressed without thinking yourself a hero,
If you believe that love is the only persuasive force,
If you believe that peace is possible, then peace will come!
©® Myriam Ghezaïl Ben Brahim
2022/2/26
Picture : @ Artsper
