From Ann Glover O’Dell’s Midwifing the Soul:
‘Not as the world gives’
is your peace you said
yet we would be
content just now with
what the world defines
since such unpeacefulness abounds
we cannot entertain the notion
of a state within
when all about us
life’s demise looms large.
Power plays take center stage
and those rehearsing roles
soon star in great performances
surprising e’en themselves
with prowess and precision patterning.
Oh greed where is thy pain
which piercing self to inner well
of generosity so makes our
substance sharing
more to be desired
than much fine gold?
Where is the understanding
of that peace not understood
by mortal minds but mandates
light’s deep penetration of the
soul’s storehouse of truth?
Is there a spirit energy
encased within your peace
propelling us to
show the world the way?