A QUATERN ABOUT AN ELUSIVE PEACE

Hi guys,

My good Swede friend, Peter, sent this clip to me two days ago. Please check it out.



Here's a quatern for you. It is one of the poems included in my upcoming book, 150+1 Poems on THE EXPERIMENTAL DASANG (Hey Poem) and 45 OTHER POETRY FORMS: An Anthology. (Note: Quatern is a French poetry form composed of 4 quatrains (4-line verses). It's unique feature is the repetition of the first line of the first quatrain in all succeeding verses.)

PEACE, WHY ARE YOU SO ELUSIVE?

Peace, why are you so elusive?
Like a bird chirping melody
Yet so far to hear you clearly
And translate your notes correctly.

We love to give you sweet embrace
Peace, why are you so elusive?
You flap your wings; you exude grace
White plumes flaunt to attract and tease.

We think of you day in and out
Hope olive branch is dropped en route.
Peace, why are you so elusive?
Guileless victims now in a clout.

Everyone's dreaming to hold you
Hoping never to let you go
Alas! we wake up without you.
Peace, why are you so elusive?

(c)2007 edmund melig industan

Peace is achievable, but it is so sad that, obviously, it is difficult for mankind to achieve. Why? Is it because...
1) People, since time immemorial, love conflict? The Biblical Cain, out of jealousy, ended up killing his twin sibling, Abel.
2) People are so competitive? Generally, we want to outdo and outsmart others. We are like a snake who crawls cleverly to hiss and snap at somebody, then, slithers quietly away as if it hasn't done anything wrong.
3) People, as economic men, are so greedy that we will resort to staging a war to maximize our benefits of the scarce resources at the expense of others? Along the way, we victimize the innocents. While functional theorists see society as interdependent and consensual, conflict theorists see society in the arena of war, fighting for power.
4) People are coward to accept their weakness, that we use conflict as a defense mechanism?
5) It is the end time? (Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:5-11)
6) The aging world is so rotten that it has to be crushed and ruined completely for a new world to come and evolve? ( Revelation 21:1-5)

Let me hear from you, my friend. SHALOM! And I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Or maybe man's heart is bottomless? We communicate peace, but actually, it is just at the surface to cover our wickedness.