Peace.

War is a sickness of ideals--
without value, without mercy.

Sickness is a persistent war--
A habit without remorse,
death in the midst of life.

Ideals are the perfection of sickness--
Hope without reality, Justice without Peace.

Peace is the ideal hope--
without sickness, without war.

Death is the peace of Thought--
without Justice. A sickness, A War:

Peace. 

Copyright (c) 1997 by D. E. Evans.
Published in the Utah Humanist, September 1997