I want to be
at peace and still
with myself
and with other
delicate persons
who pass by
and touch my way.
Peace is about
seeing persons full
and looking into their face
and then injecting the hope
and the good,
even within the
flood of tension
and the battle
of unrelenting conflict
that buffets me.
I will see with
eyes not
consumed with
revenge and
glaring with the
fragmenting power
of hate or scorn,
for I gaze
through the lens
of enlightenment,
and I smile
with the touch
of grace.
8/11/2016