What Is Peace? Poem by Dann Thomas

What is peace?
Is it before eyes close and breath is ceased
Is it the moment before a dropp of blood splatters, and is deceased?
Is it the last note of a birds swan song
Or the second before a bullet breaks skin, because life is all wrong.

Is it that pregnant moment when joy is born?
Or is it when light chases night for a glorious morn?
Is it before metal touches wood, to fell the tree?
Or when the bubble climbs up water, and waits, before it breaks free?

What is peace?
Is it the anger from which it is born?
Or is it just the lull before the storm.
Does it require a thought or a reason?
Or just foolishness, to make a moment, a mourning season.

Why is happiness only for a moment?
Isn't it sad that joy is short, and so quickly spent
Why can't peace and happiness be on earth, as in heaven above,
Probably it will, when we learn to forgive, forget,
and to share God's love.