“peace on earth”

That star of Bethlehem
bearing the angelic message
of peace on Earth
has been forgotten.

It hid behind the horizon
of disbelief
and our logical structuring
of the selective exercise
of Love, and with conditions.

The clouds of the
“all against all” concealed it
(this “all”, however, is
“of this word”
and that is why the early martyrs
another way marched ahead).

Thus Peace became the demand
not bestowed by You on us
through sacrificial love of humans,
but a triumphal trophy
born onward by our Christian soldiers.

How then would our world truly be
if along with our struggle against sin
we also declared war
on all war!
(Truly we have never heard
about any “mystic” literature regarding war).

But still we’ve never pondered
what a great sin
War is!

24 Aug. 2004