While thirteen-year-olds riot on Rottnest
and Middle East regimes fall
Assassins smile and CEOs hide away
Prophets amplify their call.
Prepare the way! Get ready!
Straighten things up and clear the road!
If it’s peace you want, then roll up your sleeves
And do the work, share the load.
For peace within requires an altered mind
And a disposition to forgiveness
Peace without requires a critical mass
Of such who dispense such witness.
Advent peace the prophets bring
Malachi and John, the one who baptises
Not for the faint hearted, this peace of old
But One is coming who Shalom comprises!
(c) Dennis Ryle December 2024
Wondering Pilgrim 