A Flurry of Peace

A Flurry of Peace

A flurry of peace prevails

Marking the end to holiday madness;

What new joy is found

To be masking man's sadness?

People estranged, 

Lives re-arranged,

As if something already different

Could possibly be changed.

Fiscal cliff fear,

Constitutional indifference

With slippery slope sliding;

Sanity abiding.

Love that is love,

Perhaps pseudo love,

Or somewhere in between,

Somehow touching each tragic scene.

The frailty of the human dilemma,

Human lives scarred by war;

Internal, external strife,

The beginning and end of man's star.

The reality of death, 

Hidden yet exposed,

Poverty and illness; man stays composed;

In the depth of darkest night, stillness.

The awakening of a new dawn 

With a flurry of peace

Beyond mere gladness, sadness and madness;

The bursting of new light. 

Ever the eternal glimmer of hope

Where hopelessness

Hidden by insanity had prevailed,

But that ship has sailed.

A snowflake swirls, twirls 

And gently touches the ground;

The flurry of peace 

Turns to a full-fledged storm.

Peace prevails

Or so it seems,

Or is that just someone's desire,

Perchance everyone's dream?