When (Not If)



When:

- women stop believing that their power lies in their looks and men respectively under the ends of the sleeves at their short-sleeved shirts, and both genders exclude their lingerie content from competing with each other,
- peace wins in all wars, and love prevails over hate,
- money ceases to be the "purpose" and becomes the "instrument" for at least the vast majority of people,
- religions cease to distinguish people only in 'faithful' and 'unbelieving' but only in good and more or less good,
- borders do not divide warring peoples, but only serve to determine areas that once upon a time some ancestors of some people lived,
- factories that currently manufacture weapons and population-destroying material, as well as, other beings and nature without distinction, start producing renewable energies materials, such as today's solar panels, and the like or similar to be discovered in the future,
- the words tall, short, thick, weak, ugly, indifferent and beautiful, come out of people's vocabulary,
- people follow their hearts and not their interests ...

.... well, then, people on our Earth will have the joy and happiness of living as humans, and the whole Earth will become "Promised Land".

PS.
Yes, I know this seems to be a lot, but no one said that  the "Promised Land" is easily won!
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Submitted by sifis on September 21, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXXXXAXB X BX
Characters 1,337
Words 224
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 1, 2

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