Peace

Peace

Most of the people

I've met over the years

have been peace loving humans

who had no desire to kill anyone

but many of them were also children

of their society and the sad truth

of it is that America is a country

that has been militarized

for over seventy years now.

We've long been immersed

in a cultural fog of fear, and wars

small and big, overt or undeclared.

You gotta know countries around the world

can't bomb themselves into peace

and the citizens of many countries

find themselves in the impossible

position of being for wars

and for peace at the same time.

Wake up! Wake up people!

Peace doesn't mean you're going to be

peaceful only until the next time

the talking heads on the wide screen TV

tell you it's time to go exploit, bomb and shoot

the next bunch of people into the ground.

You know exactly what peace means.

Peace is just that; The absence of war.

The distance between

where we are right now

and a peaceful Earth

is not as far as you might think.

Peace, my friends, lays

in the laps of two groups of people.

It resides with a few hundred leaders

around the world who steer the decisions

of the big corporations and countries.

Some leader some time is going to

have to stand up an say that the slaughter

stops with them and extend the hand of peace

to one and all around the world

because war only leads to more war

history has shown us all that.

It also resides with the world public

who refuse to show up

when they open the next war

for the business of killing.

Dewey Dirks