Arwenjoy Piedad
River Roads of Peace
There is a song entitled "A Long Road to Freedom," a student wrote a poem about using the river as roads to peace. It is a simple analogy of how the flow of the river is equated to the road to peace.
By:
Arwenjoy Piedad
Like ploughshares have dug the drift away
opening a road on blood stained hardened clay.
Earthened shells buried deep in different hollow holes
Guests of war remain at peace.
Heal our souls.
As we have forgiven those may they forgive us
Our hatred is uprooted.
Peace lies in the dust.
Cornered not by chains or imprisoned by the guilt,
Peace is like a river that washed away the blood we spit.
Etched into forever our souls will someday be,
in the place God reserves for you my friend and me.
