Looking For Peace Poem by Houda Boukassoula

Rivers of blood
Spilled out of human veins
Tried to wash away
Human dirt in vain
Mixed up with dust
Only to darken the mud
Moon was hidden by clouds
Sun at noon unable to shine
Judges unable to be just
Prisoner in a cell for claiming that
Settling peace is a duty and a right
Kept asking why people have to fight
While all of them seek the same right
Right to grow
Right to know
Right for dignity
Right for security
Right for success
Right for happiness
In brief the right for a peaceful life
Does human greed give them the right?
To build their wealth on others' poverty
To make their happiness from others' distress
To keep healthy by causing others' sickness
Does selfishness prevent them from seeing?
That sadness is as contagious as happiness
That you cannot laugh when all others cry
As others are also human they will also try
To base their happiness on your distress
What makes your present might have made their past
Best lesson to learn is granted from history
There's no future without present and past
If you want peace
Let others at ease.