Please Pray For Peace

By the road I found
A tulip
Looking at the sky.

It grew free!
I cut it, held it close
And asked it
Who was I?

It let out a cry:
'You're a spectator
In this world so ready
For the war.

It's all taken upon us:
'Like the wind's gust
Knocking the petals
To the grass,

To have consideration
For another,
To be to a fatherless child
A big brother!

In this arena of life
You sojourn!
Heart's conversing
Of Spring's return.

In the shadowy main
Of your soul
There is concern
Of everyday quarrel.

Music amid gunfire.
Beneath the asphalt
Sunny gleam's hidden,
Syllables overridden.

I turned the page.
The words emerged--
In this world of technicality,
A grim reality:

A soldier died,
Mother cried...
Among endless seas--
Please pray for peace!

SILVANA BRKARIC KRCULIC

(tulip77772003@yahoo.com)

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