Peace Poem by RIC BASTASA

i

there was this myth
about the lost sandal in Lake Lanao
that unless it is found
peace cannot be recovered

ii

i remember about what the little boy did
the hero
when he lost his slipper to the river
he then threw the other one

iii

you see
what he was driving might be
that peace is a wholesale matter
take all
or nothing
it is either you have peace
or you have war
there is nothing in between
their diplomacy

whatever is found in between
there is only hypocrisy
there is only strategy