we have Peace

They say we have peace

And that peace like still waters

Flows through our ever-weeping land

Peace overflows through their criminal

mind

For some way some how,

In their myopic comprehension,

Peace, lives in the absence of physical war

So there is Peace!

But the battles their actions dump on us

Their dark-shaded actions

Spreading suffering like enraged fire

Over our innocent souls

Can all be counted as Peace

There is peace in our land

Because we have not cut their greedy throats

Because we have not deflated their swollen bellies

Because we have not shot the cat of their being

Let them continue to breathe hardship

Let us continue to wrestle with poverty

And let them continue to call it Peace!

But I throw my caution into the listening wind

The cat thinks he has peace

Because in his stealing spree

We the owners have portrayed haplessness

So, to him

We all have Peace!