to account henceforth for
what can be noted
when we are absent from the plea.
Or should we first decide
to answer the question
even decide forthwith
if we will be involved with gun and club
in destroying precious lives of individuality
that can never be duplicated or replaced?
Should we stand down and turn aside
from the wrath unmeasurable
of alliterating vanity and metaphoring pride?
Is it even possible for more than a few,
to vacate unquestioned obligation
and join the truth,
perhaps serve ahead or support some who do
and bring injustice and oppression to the bar
of public view?
Or is all this but verbiage false
because things unlimited
also things unseen now
can only be mirages of
some future parametering?
Is it all unnecessary and wasteful
to stretch beyond the moment
as some seem eager to do?
Does Peace,
simply put,
have any place?
Or can it be equated as acceptance of space for all (cont'd)
with courtesy and honor as the daily means
of preventing another's public or private fall?
Can Peace,
seemingly so wished and struggled for
be part of some plan but only for things new?
Can Peace avoid being barred by conquest,
walled by indifference
locked and gated by Self
and all the eagerly accumulated
place, position and endless wealth,
used to propagate hunger and anger,
chaining and stealth?
Can Peace contain some hidden wonder
some marvelous infinity
a construct so vast?
Is Peace the answer and the path
to all the strain all generations suffer
because they miss the main? (cont'd)
Is Peace the ever-sought completeness
all reach for and collectively
in concert with all those before
will someday greet,
as the so obvious and so common verity
we might yet meet every day
in this world yours and mine,
when we pause to plan,
stretch to see,
or decide, even for a moment,
to ear ourselves into harmony,
and cause ourselves to telescope all things,
momentarily, at least,
to bring ourselves close enough to greet,(cont'd)
Full cadencing,
Most Prime,
Immovable and ever available,
Peace,
as equanimity complete?
Finally,
If Peace is allowed to fully access our times
will it create a state sublime
wherein can reside all structured things
in peaceful cacophony?
Will this newer sound, in itself a most pleasant chime
then be gently carried
down all halls, through all lines,
by its own unique lyrics and cascading song.
To you and all the other waiting guests,
so patient and shy
who hear the sound,
accept the demand
because, in truth, all are belled to acquiesce
as set,
since eternity first did spine?
Will each of you, then,
direct a moment’s full stop
as time to enjoy this sound
of most sweet homophony
and gently impose
a new rule of rest on ancient time
sufficient to complete a straightening of that line
Then, then,
if but for a moment's space
will all things gently fold in grace,
accept the moment's gentle repose
and allow us all,
time to breathe and hold.
this fragile moment
that will be for each quivering mortal,
sufficient time to choose, reach,
and push the waiting switch
that will fill this world with a new light
wherein will be seen;
Strife as but a fractured and broken thing.
Hate, that sublimation of envy and pride
as only a relic of primordial spleen (cont'd)
All the imagined losses and fancied gains
seen clearly as illusions of stricken brains.
Then, just a split chronome later,
will be seen and heard the far distant tide
as it lifts the sun, clears the sky,
tosses the drift into granite caves
cleanses the beach, with self-trumpeting praise
and causes all creatures to stand amazed.
Then, then, this fragile moment,
now in each quivering mortal's life
will awaken, ease and set all things right
beyond the bounds of consequentiality
until each will see or at least surmise
the fully visible invisibility
and rush to meet and greet
this ever patient and waiting guest,
known before as an impossible impossibility
but then known to each
as living,
reigning,
Peace Evergreen!
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