Wage
Peace
Wage peace with your
breath.
Breathe in firemen and
rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.
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.
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.
Celebrate today.
~ Judyth Hill
~
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