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Rest in the silver-blue

"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."


Albert Einstein

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Rest in the silver-blue


Peace is still water

that wants to meet us

at the front door

Peace is always moving

Lakes of mercury without the metallic sheen

Aqueous life

Peace has surface tension but understands

Peace maintains the status quo and its liquid

fills a house, room by room

Removing palpitations of anger


All its reflective power

is Peace’s instrument

in an orchestra of analysis and pause

The split second a wave retires,

leaving a night of silence

at the beach

Peace never crashes

on the still water

It is alert and bears an understated importance

At the extremes of life

Peace is unsettled

which brings a numbness

after a time spent thinking

about seas meeting

Peace cries

Peace mutates and finds rest in the silver-blue,

clinging to no edge


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