Yes, Of Course, I Am Not Stupid

Did you have a peaceful day?
Too often the answer is ‘Nay’

But why there is no peace in our life?
The reasons we give are stress and strife.
The killings in Nice are driving us nuts.
The world economy, surely the budget cuts.
The nasty traffic driving us crazy and wild.
A nagging neighbor, the crossness of my child.
Our spouse not happy, my friends not real.
And that pain in my back is all that I feel.

And yet Peace, the Peace with capital P,
is in the air, for all to grab for free.
If we make it inside calm, serene and kind,
we can always allow peace to enter our mind.

Somehow we were endowed with a gift, a superb right:
We can rise above the response of fight or flight.
Enslaved to our instincts, we often don’t succeed
to make use of that present, which we badly need.

Peace is all around, all the time for me and you.
Just look at the sky, whether it is pristine blue
or covered in grey clouds, as far as we can see.
Peace is in flowers, a stretch of grass, in a tree.

Even if in your room, now there are none of these,
think about love, friendship, or just about peace.
The wonderful message, you received from a friend
the joke that made you roll and laugh without end

Peace is really never really far away.
Even if none of the above came your way,
we can always get quiet, look deep inside
and find in heart and soul, a superb light

If a fish in water refuses to drink.
soon its body will hopelessly shrink.
If in our mind, we do not let in peace
soon its soundness will hopelessly cease

We have to be busy with the ubiquitous peace.
let’s have thoughts of peace, we never release.
Open our mind to the world of nature’s beauty
letting in peace a right, no rather a duty
Drink it, as water that a fish would drink
do not allow our mind’s soundness to shrink

If tomorrow someone comes your way
and asks: did you have a peaceful day?
you”ll answer: ‘yes of course, I am not stupid! ‘
of course you had a peaceful day, yes you did!