POETRY

Advent 2019 Day 13

December 31, 2019

 

When peace is too harsh

a word; its edges too sharp

for comfort, what euphemism ​​ 

would be safer, more acceptable?

Shall we choose to be saved or

maybe simply to be blessed,

some might prefer law and order

with clear guidelines and​​ 

consequences.

Maybe it’s tranquility,​​ 

or isolation

or retreat;

or accommodation.

Do we enjoy peace,

make peace

enforce peace or

are we simply at peace?

This peace of Advent

is elusive, this promise

easily misunderstood

and yet we are on a​​ 

journey to meet

the Prince of Peace.

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