Peaceful Dispositions Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Peaceful dispositions,
Comes as gifts...
To those who have removed themselves,
From various causes of their internal conflicts.
And after arriving to survive walks on paths,
To journey through ups and downs experienced.
With the leaving behind competitions.
To appreciate life without need to compete.

Peaceful dispositions are seldom decisions,
Those with them one day awaken to make.
Or choose from options to pick and take.
Peaceful dispositions seem to come to the ones,
Who have earned them...
Through the process of learning,
To know that life to live is a blessing bestowed.
And how that blessing becomes interpreted?
Only God to follow with steadfast faith knows.

Peaceful dispositions takes time to find,
As those unafraid...
Face obstacles. And not from them run away.
With a knowing there will be disappointments.
And the ones with peace in their dispositions,
Seem more appreciated by those with minds...
Who have stopped chasing denials to pretend,
They have 'not' felt the affects of heartbreak.
To witness the mending that eventually begins.
And no longer find it a priority to pretend.
Like so many living just to get attention.

Those with peaceful dispositions,
Live with a willingness to forgive.
And to value with patience and tolerance,
That which 'is' to accept.
And not be the ones to become upset,
By changes that are made that stay effective.
Those with peaceful dispostions,
Seldom place themselves in positions...
To make attempts to refuse what tomorrow brings.
And those tomorrows, for all us...
Have come to go with each stage of a fading Sunset.