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March 19, 2008

Remember Peace?

When strife becomes a way of life,
who remembers peace
as something more
than just a faraway place,

A surreal miraging memory
fading in the distance,
clouds smoking
the scent of death
amid orange lurid flashes of fire?

Do lifetimes lived
within continuous war
even know
what to dream anymore,

Except for something else,
an intangible forgotten feeling
that can't be fought for,
but just gently allowed
to be?

Gordon Neumann
3/19/2008

Posted by mwblog at 10:08 PM