POETRY
2009 FIRST PLACE

What About Peace?
Brian Tagle
16 years old, California

What about peace?
Is it something natural?
Something manufactured?
Something born?
Born from breathing hearts?
In a problem stricken country?
Born from gun wielding hands
On Blood soaked foreign lands?
Born from the minds of thinkers?
Born from the thoughts of revolutionaries?
Is peace even universal?
Or is it what we make it?
How can we see it?
Can peace be achieved?
When no one knows what peace is?
That is, if peace means something different to the individual?
To everyone who views it?
So how will we know when we have it?
Or rather is it experimented,
Where we keep trying supposed “solutions”
Until one works
And we call it peace?
That is the questions I lay upon you,
Just
What
Is
Peace?……