 |
 WAGE PEACE |
Wage
peace with your breath.
Breathe
in firemen and rubble,
breathe
out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.
Breathe
in terrorists
and
breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.
Breathe
in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe
in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.
Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.
Make soup.
Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine
grief
as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.
Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:
Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.
Judyth
Hill
Way
of the Mountain@ Rockmirth
September 11, 2001
*My
apologies to Judyth for the posting error of her wonderful poem.
Check out her work at the above link.
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