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The world is at war because it has lost peace (Pope Francis)


By dlindorff - Posted on 30 July 2016


But it’s not just the world that has lost peace.

 

 

I lost my peace.

 

 

I used to have it.

 

 

I used to cook meals with it,

 

 

I used to season my food with it.

 

 

It was with me when I mowed the lawn.

 

 

 

 

 

My peace,

 

 

my vision.

 

 

I even had it after Orlando . . .

 

 

 

 

 

I was watering the garden

 

 

and I looked up

 

 

at the clouds passing over the field,

 

 

and that was when I realized that peace was missing.

 

 

 

 

 

Have you seen it?

 

 

It was right here only yesterday?

 

 

 

 

 

You ask, “What did it look like?”

 

 

 

 

 

Well, like a sunrise,

 

 

like a bird singing in a tree,

 

 

like a wetland beside the interstate.

 

 

It looked like a gun with a flower sticking out of it.

 

 

It looked like a catchy bumper sticker,

 

 

like a sunset,

 

 

like a red and pink Hawaiian guitar

 

 

with islands stenciled on it

 

 

and a hula dancer...

 

For the rest of this new poem by  poet-in-residence Gary Lindorff in ThisCantBeHappening!, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/3252

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