STRIFYING YET AT PEACE!!!!

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means, through knowledge and through humane ways!! Like our close living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, humans are hardwired come into conflict with one another, often violently. Even so, like our ancestors, we also have the capacity to resolve fights; something that one anthropologist says has evolved along with our societies over the millennia.

Am delineating in a place,

where my heart taboo to be!!

Arising every morning,

wishing, it was only a dream.

I still go to the place,

where am supposed to be,

My heart elicits for more,

A wait ,it has to be.

I meet the people who make me heaven-sent,

I walk along wishing something would be disparate,

The cram is all around me,

Yet, it feels so lonesome,

Meet the veracious people, they say,

how do I figure out, they forgot to tell,

Don’t credent  just anyone, they say,

Whom to credent, they forgot to say,

I sit watching calmly everyone pass by,

some wait and say a hello,

I have forgotten what it feels like,

to be comfortable and adjust,

it’s a long gone feeling,

treasuring a few cherished moments,

a smile that was swept off,

the tears that kept rolling down,

the heart that kept yearning,

I knew, I believed,

I looked and I could see,

the dreams that I wanted to be,

something beyond surreal,

something that only reflections can be,

hold me, take me off,

speak to me and let me know,

you are and will be,

right here where you are meant to be,

I then opened my eyes,

woke up from my snored sleep,

smiling to myself knowingly,

a dream that soon will be a reality!!!

Mutual trust and bilateral negotiations, preparedness to discuss the problem collectively with open mindedness, tendency to examine and change our own belief i.e. flexibility is required to escape conflict. Total disarmament is the need of the hour but it cannot take place unless and until the hearts and minds of persons who manufacture, sell and purchase weapons are changed.

     “ Peace is not absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

                                                                     -Ronald Reagan