PEACE NOW

If there is fear in our minds
there can be no peace.
If there is fear in our hearts
there can be no peace.
If there is fear in any part of us
there can be no peace.
But if there is peace in us
there can be no fear.
For peace and fear cannot abide
in the same space, house, mind, heart,
or even in our little toes
at the same moment.
What a simple choice
is choosing
PEACE NOW.


SATORI

Today we are sitting
on our Satori,
gazing at the mind,
a bone yard
of half-stripped car parts,
rusting in the weeds--

always recycled
in the silence of
sun,
rain,
wind,
and snow--

all those personalities
disassembled
piece by peace--

until what is left
is crushed,
hauled off,
then melted into
Gold.

Alan Christensen, Montello, Wisc.
rivertink@yahoo.com

Jan 2004


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