Imagine a new brotherhood (Remembering Lennon), by Francisco Vaz Brasil

Imagine a new brotherhood 
(Remembering Lennon)

                                        by Francisco Vaz Brasil

Imagine the governments worried

with food production,  health, education,

safety for people, and new technologies for best life,

not long discusses and political trips around world.

Imagine young people in the school,

speaking about Twain, Capote, Dickens, 
Carrol, Hemingway, Whitman or Austen,

not sharing drugs at the corners of the cities.

Imagine all the people practicing their activities,

constructing new dreams  

not using guns and knives to kill their brothers.

Imagine all citizens walking by the streets,

speaking about their life projects,

without fear of assaults and hijacks.

Imagine your children running free by the parks

without robbers, hijackers and ravishers

to  importunate them.

Imagine clean cities where everybody care

of the dirt putting it in appropriate local, recycling it and

acting for prevent obstruction of the drains that cause floods.

Imagine people saying good morning each other

Imagine that there’s no invaders of your lands,

Imagine there’s no racial differences,

Imagine there’s no religion intolerance,

Imagine a world where there’s no wealth distinction,

Imagine all people hearing a good music by Beatles,

See how beautiful is children laughing and smiling.

Imagine all  animals in quietude in the Nature,

Imagine a many-colored forest with Cedars and Tabebuias,

Imagine there’s no war or terrorism,

Imagine there’s no pain or hurts for cure…

I want pigeons flying by sky.

I want to see my neighborhood smiling happy.

I want to see all children going in peace to school.

I wish peacefulness for my friends and descendants.

I wish a world without crimes and wars.

I wish a world where a good book 

can be read under a Mahogany tree.