Feather your living
Home for the heart
Peace in your labor
Lessons to embark

Be silent in silence
Caring in each way
Follow the heavens
Birds do it this way

Seek to find doors
Knock to be given
Welcome kindness
Humanity forgiven

Badges of courage
Armored for might
Eye on all children
Sparrows in flight

Trees of our living
Shade for our rest
Be as the birds fly
Family in the nest

Peace is a journey
A trail to our God
A compass for life
Within earth’s sod

(This poem is dedicated to the Scouting for Peace Foundation and their sincere efforts to promote peace and a healing earth in their mission to teach our children how to live.)

Observe world peace this Veteran’s Day, on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, the 11th month, with a minute of silence, peace delivered in the 11th hour for all who have died for our freedoms.

©Kathy Paysen 2009