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Alice Slater's avatar

Please sign me on.

Alice Slater

World. BEYOND War, Board Member

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New signatures:

Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg, founders, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden - https://transnational.live

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Please sign me on.

Laura Calosso

Journalist writer

Italy

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Afonso Gameiro

Por favor inscrevam-me

Não ás armas nucleares.

Macela Carmo do Santos's avatar

I’d sign as well, Macela Carmo dos Santos, English teacher, coordinator, psychologist, humanitarian and advocate for Peace & Dignity in Practice!

Lily del Mar's avatar

what do i have to do to sign?

Guven Cagil's avatar

It's the google form link with the caption for the image of Pope Leo at the top.

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https://freelilygrace.substack.com/p/song-to-death-and-a-call-to-a-hero

Song to death and a call to a Hero

]Before a sea of possible nuclear destruction

I’ve seen you face to face

Since my childhood

One day she came in crying inconsolably

No longer with him, but alone

She sobbed and said:

“He’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone”

She wept desperately

Where did he go, I wondered?

Perhaps seven years old?

A stilt house on the Lake in Maracaibo

Bordering the Caribbean Sea

Situated in the middle of the solitary water

Nothing else in sight

You came like wind, storm, and power

My father on the ground in a death pose

Dealing with you in his own way

My mother crying desperately

Feeling you so close, by her side

I left the room

While the wind and water roared all around me

And I saw you

And I felt the mortal fear of Mom and Dad

I grew wide with fear

The fear of you settled in my body, my mind, my cells, and my heart

To the point that for a time, which I cannot determine

Long after that event

I wanted to surrender to you

Instead of fearing you anymore

More stories of our intimacy, Lady Death

I have to tell

But perhaps they are for another conversation

This is the one I wanted to get to:

Trinidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

No More “two”

But “three”

Although One presided in the Name of Truth

Of a demonstration of transcendence and peace

The ‘desire to live’

Based on Narcissus’s specialty and his lust for life

Began to be confronted once again

By the desire to Awaken

Then, once again, you, Mother Death

Come to tempt us

She and she enter the sea

And then, after a moment, they realize that

The current claims them

With more force than their arms and legs can give

HELP, I CRY!

While the sea wants to penetrate my throat and make me its own

HELP!

He finally understands the call

And signals to a fisherman

To come for me, twice the distance from the shore, than she was

He, not being from the coast, dives in for her, who was closer

I remember the water entering my mouth

My feet no longer touched the ground

And I said: I don’t want to die!

Then, suddenly, I feel the sand lightly touching the soles of my feet

And I can take small steps

Until the fisherman comes, takes me, and swims me back to Him

On the seashore

Today I look at you again

Face to face

Before the shores of a devastating sea

Of nuclear forces of destruction

That can, in an instant

End everything

Be two, three, or entire communities

I feel the water of your plea for me

Entering my throat

I can barely breathe anymore

And I cry out: HELP!

HELP!

Knowing that none of this

Is His Will

The Fisherman is already with me

He sent him to me long ago

I don’t know if this time the sea will claim us both and everyone else

Or if anyone will hear the cry of my Heart

Perhaps you, Papa Leo…

Perhaps you this time…

Perhaps you will hear my roar of a Lion

That knows of Resurrection and Life

And renounces Death and Crucifixion

I am

Lylian Del Mar Labarca León

Citizen of Planet Earth

That is my Affiliation

Are you ready to respond, Papa Leo?

I come in His Name

OM MA DA

OM MA DA

OM MA DA

It is my cry

Beyond the call of Death

To deny the possibility of Peace

Of a Transition

Into Eternal Life

Lily del Mar's avatar

oh, i am so sorry i missed it, thank you so much

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Stephanie Ezrol, author, editor EIR magazine, Schiller Institute

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Isaac Hovet

Pastor, Foursquare Church, United Lutheran Seminary, Standing Stone Ministries.

Author of "Undoing the Enemy Making Machine"

Maeeda Kenaya's avatar

Signing on to the appeal to Pope Leo and all world leaders to stop all wars.

Maeeda Kenaya

Ronald Bettag's avatar

Please sign me on. Karen Ball, Board Member of Pax Christi Texas, San Antonio Chapter

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Marshall Carter-tripp

Retired Foreign Service Officer

Signing!

Line's avatar

Please add my name, Line Breian. Thank you

maral's avatar

Marianna M. pax Christi, pax vobiscum, et spirtu tuo

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Ibnar Stratibus, Intentional Peer Support provider

please sign me on.

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Alex Brint

Ottsville, PA

@informaliæ on substack

https://brint.substack.com/

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También firmo. Norma Di Benedetto. Argentina discipula de Francisco