Section 1 - Love

written by Monika A.

Love…
What are you?
What is your color?
Are you red, green or white?
I do not know…
And no one does.
But I know what color it is for me!
It is the color of my mum's eyes,
The color of my dad's joy,
The color of my sister's toy,
The color of my friends' smiles!
I love my mum, I love my dad,
I love my sister and my friends!
I love them all!
I love my grannies,
Kind and old,
And teachers
Who are simply gold
To bear all that students do.
I love them all!
I love this world,
I love this life.
And every second
That I live
Is full of love
That never dies!

Section 2 - Peace

written by Hannah B.

A dove flapping its wings,
Carrying an olive leaf
Carrying peace to the ship that sailed out of the storm

Holding hands,
Connecting people everywhere
Putting down our weapons of hatred

Finding peace may be like finding a needle in a haystack,
But remember that it is not somewhere else,
It's within you

When clutching my belongings in a storm,
I wonder if peace will ever come,
If peace will ever be found

When you tell yourself,
"Don't cry, don't cry,"
It seems like that feeling lingers

Moving forward when the failures drag you
Is the hardest thing for me,
Though I know that peace will push me to the present

Though peace is always within,
Waiting to come forward,
Peace is not always called out from others

War breaking out, peace slowly fading
Though they ignore the chaos,
That is not peace

When the land falls,
When peace falls,
That is when we learn the importance

Of Peace

Section 3 - Happiness

written by Monika A

It seems you must begin to smile
The moment someone pronounces
HAPPINESS
But alas… I do not smile…
Cause I see that
In this world of grown-ups
Happiness is not enough.
But…
I wanna see that happiness…
I wanna see that happiness
In Mummy's eyes,
In Daddy's smile!
I wanna feel that happiness inside,
I wanna happiness for me and you,
I wanna happiness for all of us,
For every living creature in this world!
As life without happiness
Is black and white,
Without any colors, any joy.
I wanna happiness,
For me it's like a rainbow
That shines so bright
After a nasty rain.
It brings colors to the world
Just the way that happiness does.
So for me
Happiness is red and green, yellow and blue,
Orange, purple and pink.
And I cannot understand
Why grown-ups do not see
All the magic of these colors.
What has made them so blind?
Maybe problems of this life,
Endless troubles, too much pain…
Maybe there is too much, too much rain
That is why there is no rainbow to shine.
But I wanna share my happiness with them,
I wanna bring colors to the world of those
Who have lost the colors of their rainbow.
Happiness is doubled,
It's tripled,
It's multiplied
When shared with others.
So let's share, share and share happiness!
So let's double, triple and multiply happiness!
Happiness, happiness and again happiness!
For me, and for you,
We wanna happiness
For all of us!