(taken from 'What Lies Beyond This Door' by GORDON C. WONG:)
For love, for lovers, for all forms and manifestations of love, i dedicate this work.
For John Lennon, who said 'All You Need Is Love', i offer 'The Common Word'.
For my friends in the peace movement (visible and not), who must continually explain what love means to them, i offer 'No Monument Standing', 'Is There A Word For It?', and my hopes and prayers that 'The Legacy' beyond 'War' will be one of true and just peace.
For those of us who still seek and find an "interior peace" from God, i offer 'When The
Spirit Moves Me' and 'Children', and my prayers that our common bond will
continue and grow.
Never again a 'holy war', we must pray.
For Desmond Tutu, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Paton, Frederic Van Zyl Slabbert,
Nelson Mandela, and the victims of racism and the denial of their undeniable human
rights everywhere, i hope that in each case your 'Hunger' will be satisfied.
Happiness is a right none are entitled to deny in others...even or especially when
it's not something shared with the streets.
For Harry Chapin, my deepest gratitude for setting an example by his life and work for a future and a better world for "all of us," free from hunger.
For my parents, i offer my thanks for having made me understand how important love is, by
their wisdom and through learning from the mistakes they made which they never hid from
me, though we learned from each other...'Time Passes'...so we don't need to hear it
over and over again from those with the prehistoric dictionaries and lifestyles.
You were wrong then and you're more wrong now.
Grow up.
For Susan, for Karen, for Mary, for Roe, for Carole, for Linda, for all the individuals who made these possible and to whom i owe so much for what i am, i acknowledge the parts of me i learned from you.
For Kate, who now has a new life to nurture, my personal hopes that your future together will be a happy one.
For Marina, who gave me 'Vision' for the future by 'What We've Found':
all that we can be, God willing...