Crossing Fences

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

Hear with our ears

Listen with our hearts

It’s only our minds

That  keep us apart

Can’t hear what you say

When you talk so loud

Got my ego in my ears

Acting too damn proud

image by SueAnn

To cross the fence

To compromise

Don’t mean I’m weak

It means I’m wise

Just cause I’m different

Don’t have to hate

Try to understand

Communicate

Break down the lies that

Separate us

Alienate us

Trash, berate us

You might not like

Everything I do

But still respect

My point of view

Why can’t I hold 

My own god dear

Without holding your 

God in fear?

In the end 

What's there to gain

by causing people 

So much pain?

So many scars

That never heal

How long before 

We just don't feel?

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Mini Challenge, Poetry for Peace 
and dVerse Poets Pub, dVerse Poetics, Through the Artist's Lens 

and BlogBlast for Peace

Dona Nobis Pacem (What's So Funny?)

Blog For Peace!

 

We ask for peace

but are at war in our own households

We tell soldiers to abandon their weapons

while we sleep with guns

under our mattresses

We expect countries to share borders

and we can not share our own children

without tearing them apart from inside

 How can there be peace

when our hearts pulse with anger and hate?

Who will teach love

to the child whose mother was murdered

by her father?

Who will bring peace

to the child who sleeps with

his brother's ashes in a coffee can?

A classic from Elvis (no, not Presley!)




submitted for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Peace
and BlogBlast for Peace 2011