Peace
Is it a satisfaction of the heart,
or the loneliness of a city?
Can one feel it from within,
or only by the brutal force of outside?
Can it exist in a bustling city,
or on land pressed into war?
Is obedience the end of it,
or only the beginning?
They claim to establish it
while stealing a ruler from his people.
Is this peace,
or a dictatorship?
A mother locks the doors
while the television speaks—
hoping for well,
while someone announces
that freedom is established.
Is this the peace
we were looking for?
— Ray Moonee
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Author:
Ray Moonee (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Volcanic Calm reflects on the fragile idea of peace during moments of political rupture. The poem questions whether peace is an inner condition, a public narrative, or something imposed through power. By placing global claims of freedom beside ordinary domestic fear, it explores the quiet tension between official declarations and lived reality, where calm exists on the surface while uncertainty burns underneath.
- Category: Sociopolitical
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Comments1
What is peace? Is it the lack of external violence or the internal calm that comes from within. A lovely write
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