THE WAY TO PEACE
We speak in many tongues,
but from what heart?
Hearts
of love bring joy and peace;
Hearts of fear more hatred, war.
In Freedom’s name, some self-immolate,
take eye for eye and blind the world.
Suicide-bombers, kamikaze, martyrs,
victims, victors, tyrants and liberators
speak their truth from age to
age
in many tongues. Now cyberbabble
heartless language fills the world
as terrorist and religion intertwine.
Towers of babble come tumbling down.
Where are those who knew the language
of the trees and sang with wolves?
They who show the way to peace
obedient
always to the Golden Rule,
live in grace on hallowed land
beyond the end of inhumanity,
with the birth of loving souls.
Beyond the paradox of life in death,
Life gives to life, as we must too.
Then peace will come
And all our slaughtering end.
--- Michael W. Fox July, 2007
