This small painting was created as part of the “We the Listening Collection” and is mixed media on canvas and measures 8x10 inches framed.

“We the Listening” by Ferrill Gibbs

Autumn, long gone...

Naked trees outside the dorm

Cold now, this town,

a ghost town now that school is out

And I want to be with somebody beside their fire.

Another year of tension

a separated land

This town, my town

will feel all the world's effects...

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men

And the eyes of the world - of every boy and girl - alight with fire.

Ding dong... ding dong ... 

go the bells in this dead town

All gone, all gone,

are the ears that make the difference

Fingers in them - all gone, all gone

Ding dong, ding dong,

go the bells across the world

I can hear them... I can hear them

We can hear them! We can hear them!

From some lonely distant beacon

We the listening

Ding dong ding ... ding dong ding.

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men

All I want this year is peace and goodwill among men...