LAGU JOHN LENNON UNTUK KEDAMAIAN DUNIA

John Lennon*s great secular prayer, IMAGINE,is today recognized in Britain as the most popular song of the millennium,it is one of the many indelible messages of peace delivered in our time by the champion of light,champion of love and peace.The champions who were taken from us well before their time,his dream anbd his messages of peace inspired all of us.Sir Paul Mc Cartney limned that message for my generation when he sang ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.We did not know then that John Lennon,who captured the essence of a millennium*s religious teaching in that tuneful mantra,would die at an assassin*s hand as he stepped out for an evening walk.I do hope his message of peace and his dream will reach many places in Indonesia,where people are killing each other in the name of God and religion.Mahatma Gandhi,Mother Theresa,Martin Luther King,Bung Hatta,Nelson Mandela are champions of light,love and peace,Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela picked -up Gandhi*s torch,and there are times when its light seems to animate Kofi Annan,the current secretary general of the UN.Yet we do not need to look only to that handful of world leaders who retain a sense of honour and decency.Each of us is capable of becoming a champion of light,love and peace.Hidajat Sjarif.