by Marc Janssen
Violent economy, pays: blood -- storms --
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
In the street standing, hands raised, “Don’t shoot”
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
On TV hostile faces express “views”
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
Oh Henry, it has been a long long time,
And hate still mocks the song of peace on earth.
The violence of our days, fear in our nights,
Pleads for peace on earth good will to men.
Marc Janssen grew up in the State of Jefferson, educated in Southern California and currently resides in Oregon. Janssen is a former copywriter and marketer who now works as a bureaucrat. He is regularly published in journals and magazines such as The New Verse News, Off the Coast, The Ottawa Arts Review, Cirque Journal, Vine Leaves and in anthologies including Manifest West and The Northern California Perspective.