Sunset ends the day,
The years shift their place,
Under the sun’s sway
Times from times fall;
Mind fighting mind
The secret cords unwind
No power can replace:
Love gathers all.
The living and the dead
Centuries separate,
Man from himself is led
Through mazes past recall,
Distraction can disguise
The wastrel and the wise
Till neither knows his state:
Love gathers all.
Father at odds with son
Breeds ageless enmity,
Friendships undone
Build up a topless wall;
Achilles and Hector slain
Fight, fight and fight again
In measureless memory:
Love gathers all.
The quarrel from the start,
Long past and never past,
The war of mind and heart,
The great war and the small
That tumbles the hovel down
And topples town on town
Come to one place at last:
Love gathers all.