Pacifism Poem by Romella Kitchens

The praying man does not let violence into his heart if his prayers are truly prayers.

He can be raised in violence.
He can have practiced violence at some point in
his life.

He can live in a community of violence but
his acts now spirituality and espoused beliefs are the opponents to that violence.
If he takes on violence again he makes himself
it, a hypocrite and little else. If he falsifies his interest in peace he does nothing new, just ugly and divisive old activities.
If he needs to defend himself from attack or defend others then, there is no lie in him.

But, Falsehood
is the quickest bullet of all.

He will not let the violent simply do what they wish to do, even though their history is long and laborious for doing just that.

He is the future if we accept that in ourselves. He is the upright ape without allegiance to his past primative ways.

But, the sinister is always lurking there. The man who is evil enough to pray for peace with a machete by his side.