Enjoy the Peace, Prepare for War
“Why can’t we all just get along?”
_I see most every day.
And then there are the peace mongers
_Who get into our way.
Enjoy the peace, prepare for war,
_As long as it may be.
We always have to pay the cost,
_If we are to be free.
Ever since we’ve been on earth,
_Men have been at war.
With unseen principalities
_We must fight o’er and o’er.
When angels in the heavens said
_“Peace be unto you,”
They added on “to men of good will”
_—Not the devilish too.
I really hate those with the sign
_Of the two-fingered peace.
Telling us make love not war,
_While hating the police.
When someone flashes the peace sign,
_And says the words, “Peace Out,”
I rejoin with my own few words,
_“War is what life’s about.”
I hate the word-abuse of “peace,”
_As I hate the thought of hell.
Peace is reserved for heaven’s halls
_Where all God’s children dwell.
While earthly peace is an illusion,
_Peace is still my dream,
But just not here on muddy earth
_Where war still reigns supreme.
Poet’s Note: Bible, Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
LTC Roy E. Peterson, US Army Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer (Retired) has published more than 7,300 poems in 102 of his 125 books. He has been an Army Attaché in Moscow, Commander of INF Portal Monitoring in Votkinsk, first US Foreign Commercial Officer in Vladivostok, Russia and Regional Manager in the Russian Far East for IBM. He holds a BA, Hardin-Simmons University (Political Science); MA, University of Arizona (Political Science); MA, University of Southern California (Int. Relations) and MBA University of Phoenix. He taught at the University of Arizona, Western New Mexico University, University of Maryland, Travel University and the University of Phoenix.
