​Peace On Earth

Whatever your challenges and conditions,
may you find Peace Within too.
My humble, evolving philosophy
simply mirrors my evolving World View.
Whether quiet or dramatic,
tamed down or wildly theatrical,
fast paced or moving slowly,
Life changes, never static.
We move through the poetry of spacetime
changing things we think and do,
sometimes even understanding
two opposite truths can be true.
Fighting for Peace through War
or victory in defeat and death
and gaining more when nothing’s left,
do sometimes happen too.
May Peace be your in heart and mind
for there all conflicts start and grow
into the miseries of Mankind-
depressing, oppressing, aggressing,
spreading through lives like plagues
in ancient and modern histories,
sad stories of Humankind.
May Peace be the Energy of Life
flowing freely in your life,
in your family, culture and nation-
those unions of co-creation.
May Peace be as a steady stream
of consciousness flowing clean and clear
for you and for all you hold dear.
May your life be ever free
of strategic manipulations
creating conflicts and divisions-
hatred, violence, revenge-
Peace sabotaged, betrayed, subverted
in ways that harm, not heal.
Thus, civilizations rise only to fall.
May we see that our own self-interest
individually, globally, needs to transform
to the highest Good for All.
This world has seen many leaders.
By what have our leaders been led?
How many have acted beyond self-interest?
Any true Peace on Earth will be
the highest Good for All.
No leader leads without support.
No leader, kind or not, elected or not,
no tyrant, aggressor, despot
ever living on this Earth
could rule over others
without forces of strong support,
without others accepting submission
to their powers, privileges, permissions assumed,
even rights proclaiming God’s will
used to do their own good or do ill.
Peace does not thrive in tyranny
of any form, in any place or relationship,
even dressed up as a law
and robed in a theocracy.
Peace without Freedoms
or Respect for Life everywhere-
without Good Will Lived-
is but a hope, a dream, a shadow
of what can be, collectively
and individually, in all our lives here.
Peace Within is Cause, not just Effect.
It affects and denotes our Evolution-
this Choice, Answer, Remedy, Solution
able to work miracles everywhere.
Peace to all beings. Peace on Earth.

December 15, 2021
Shelley Wilson