ON PEACE

The problem with peace is that there are far too many pieces 

And it's tough for a peacemaker to piece together piecemeal

or please the parties that are party to partisan prevarication

Dispense with the prevailing pestilence of pistols

For they provoke incense and precipitate offence

As the present predicament flounders, provided with no solution

Instead the politicians pen epistles to appease the pleas

from pissed off peas in a pod, fighting over the name of a God

while the peace that passeth understanding prevails only in fiction