This is a Peace Poem

dwelling in the canyon

of red sand stone

we marked our houses

with characters

befitting our desires 

if we were sad 

we chose happiness 

or a sign for 

deeper sorrow 

wanting to go 

to the bottom 

of the well 

we were the 

red sand people 

our neighbors

were from

blue cloud gulch

they were

a two day walk

from us

we did not

own cars

anymore

there was no fuel

we did not

fight any more

there was

no need

Imagine Peace

by Pattra Burnetto Monroe August 18,2007.