A POEM FOR TODAY

PEACE

If peace is what I want, I have to live

without the worship of security.

I have to slowly learn to love and give

in fellowship. I have to try to free

myself from always taking care of me,

from thinking everything revolves around

my so-called separate life. I have to see

that shelter and protection isn’t found

in self-regard, but in surrendering

to all the universe and all its joys

and sorrows. I must discover how to sing

the song of letting go, and live with poise

and humbleness. True peace arrives when “me”

transforms to “us”, and “I” grows into “we”.