humankind learns slowly
with much blood & loss––
why do we forget to grieve?
armies of greed
are torturing our earth––
bin laden is dead
but the suffering reaches back
endlessly before the
beginning.
fire burns mindlessly
to exhaustion, but people have hearts & brains
to feel & sometimes think.
we’ve been at war
in our world since
genesis––
now we destroy
with the power of gods.
we know in the center
of our souls––
it is time to stop.
ten years or ten millennia
of killing––
it has been enough.
may we finally
be ready to embrace
peace––
the peace
that passes far beyond
our understanding.