3-23-22

There is a restlessness in me now

Images of war will not stop.

I want to escape but I stop, I hold to myself.

Maybe I need to be reminded how much cruelty

Fear is capable of.

How destructive the need to control is.

Perhaps I should be haunted by these images.

Maybe I need to see that my desire to control

Is still stronger than my desire to trust.

Maybe I cannot find my way out because

There is no way out.

Maybe this is me.

Maybe peace and conflict is how nature

Achieves balance for mankind.

Maybe like all things peace is impermanent-

In ourselves and in our world.

Maybe I don’t like it –

But I don’t remember being asked.