ISHMAEL PALIPAL
An entry in The Crocodile Prize
Kina Securities Award for Poetry
Peace, Peace, Peace
If peace is on the worlds’ stock market
I can rob all the money in the world just to buy more
If peace is gain through killing people
I would sign up to kill every human race on earth
If peace can be found by travelling the world
I would travel the world restlessly for more
If peace can be found in corruption
I would be the worst corrupter in the world
If peace can be found in the sun
I would break the world’s record to travel to the sun
If peace is found in sexual immorality
I could be a sex machine world had ever known
But if peace can be found in honesty
Can I be the honest person in the world?
If peace is found in respecting others
Can I be the respectful man on earth?
If peace is found in love
Can I be the one whose love covers the sea?
If peace is earn by giving
Can I give to those who are needy?
If peace is found in unity
Can I break up my boundaries to unite?
If peace is found in equality
Can I distribute things equally?
If peace is found in truth
Can I be an honest guy ever lived?
And if peace is found in God
Can I be one to be called his son
Or where can I find that thing called
Peace, Peace, Peace?