what IS peace?

Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 3:41pm

The world craves such a concept yet its activity reflects otherwise,

mind is constantly active, serenity is then lost to the miser

Man came to Earth to know his Heart,

he creates all kinds of wonderful art to be burned in the hearth

He names everything that he sees with his two ignorant eyes,

but he's yet to understand the principle behind who he calls "I"

The world outside is diversity in competition--between lack and abundance;

nature is fierce, indifferent, the strong adapts, the weak dies by chance

In fear of seen knowledge, he fights for survival to be in power,

this lust makes him King above the lion to divide and conquer

The urban jungle is the King's castle--impenetrable fortress

for the throne to be abdicated to jealousness

In defense, time and energy is wasted to defend life,

but such act requires trained army to destroy lives of others by knife

This is the nature of man as he seeks fervently to imitate Nature,

for he only sees the veneer of the struggle not the Love allure

In the lack of Love, a misunderstanding ensues to pride,

an arrogance that ownership of power is the chosen bride

For the love of the family jewel, he destroys all threats to his crown,

a crown of thorns that bleeds only for children of his own

Such vanity is blamed on the selfish gene of self-preservation,

but Love knows that the root stems from lack of Understanding

Everything known and unknown is energy of Life, children of God,

what we do we do unto ourselves and time is to undo in the eye of God

If God is Love, we must become It--what is holding us from becoming?

Is it the peace of mind that we all crave and hope in the Second Coming?

All hopes are waged by anxiety for the jackpot to save us from suffering

and war, struggle and conflict, insecurity and instability--desiring

Desire is tension for mind to thrive

and be useful in busyness in the illusion of alive

Our soul desires peace that is only possible in Silence,

but such inactivity from preoccupation births a Presence

A high intelligence that feels like an alien abduction

for the paranoid mind to surrender to such mindless reduction

To be nothing is death for business, a total system collapse

A worldwide depression makes world peace impossible in time lapsed

World Peace starts at home, in every individual, by hard work,

by heart work to realize that meditation means a deep inactivity without jerk

World peace is not possible unless there is genuine peace in one's household,

in the mind housekeeping of thoughts and Beauty behold

One can know oneself only when everything has become still,

silent and quiet--deathlike, a suicide of preoccupation with kills

When we stop appreciating the beautiful sun setting in the distant horizon,

we are defeated in our cherished moment of reflection to live on

the enjoyment of living time instead of killing time

Peace is stop buying the beliefs of confusion to consume for war crimes

World peace is in the grain of wheat when allowed to interact with the elements

to harvest and nourish the world hunger in the banished Soul of men.