Saturday, May 20, 2006

Poem: Changes Eleven/Peace


1
Heaven and earth unite
In an image of Peace

When grass is pulled up
The sod comes with it

There is no one
Without the other

2
No plain is not followed by a slope
No going not followed by a return

No relief exists without discomfort
And no woman without a man

Or man without a woman
Or a virus without a host

3
One who courts danger
Is testing and exploring

The very margins
Of life

4
The wall falls back into the moat
The king's body hangs naked

From the flagpole
A ruler is toppled

And the condition exists
For the next leader to emerge.
---o0o---

1 comment:

ufukhati said...

"Peace" is a very beatiful word. It
should be grown in the very beautiful heart.


Let us share what Rumi had said :
"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely
is made for the eye of one who sees."
[From : Mathnawi, translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski].