There is a common need

There is a common need that passes through every nation
It is shared by all things living every aspect of creation
And though it seems so evident it remains the most unheeded
Love and understanding is the constant that's forever needed

Though we're warm and breathing so often we forget our being
And from what could make us human we are so very often fleeing
We are so blinded to those among us: so starving for our attention
And prefer the whirl wind around us to the sounds of their retention

This is why we're so distressing: so quick to run off to our foolish war
We forget we're  made for creation: there's nothing else we're made for
Until we come into that harmony that's calling out from our spirit inside
We'll never see that peace and unity we're calling for on the outside.