A Pace Rainbow Flag - Burnt In The Diarising .

   
 
 
     
In year 1.    
     
a soft white cloth      
offered as flags    
in peace, tranquillity,    
and surrender    
     
In year 2 .      
     
branches of olive leaves    
ripped from trees    
offered
on bent knees    
of dreaming    
rainbows      
-promises of    
saving floods of horror    
     
In year 3 .    
     
white doves
in abundance    
wearing rings of      
forgiveness;    
their wings fluttering    
in take off    
and flight    
     
In year 4 .    
     
white Poppy's    
sown, grown    
nurtured, watered,    
and loved to      
a garden of beauty in  
modern friendship    
     
In year 5 .    
     
rifles broken;    
scattered accross  
barren ground    
in peace with
resistance to war
and hate  
in familiar      
homes of hearts    
     
In year 6 .    
     
campaigned the scripture    
"Love one another"    
tattooing John 13 verse 34    
across black souls    
faces of hate    
and dark black eyes    
in the V    
between upright fingers    
spread confidently    
     
In year 7.    
     
the tattoo ink is spent    
on the covers    
of that un-opened book    
rifles all broken    
flower beds frozen in winter's ice    
white petals of past      
now dry and worn  
   
doves have lost direction    
choosing south for winter    
the forrest burnt down    
Olive trees now      
charcoal in their      
desolation    
white flags ripped    
to dish-cloths      
     
having made 644  
white origami cranes
before depleting paper    
with broken    
pointer fingers    
for Sadako Sasaki's    
last bed-wish
 
all hail  
new instalments    
of family      
-Hiroshima    
     
     
     
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