Peace Be Upon You

peace be upon you, my brother
for we no longer fight for the same cause
the same freedom
peace be upon you, my brother
for we no longer think with the same feeling
the same heart
peace be upon you
for we no longer share the same dreams
for life and the experience has unstitched the seems
of the woven cloth of our fortune
peace be upon you, brother
for we have become lovers of sin
and has-beens to a fate that has left us hollow
left us without meaning
or purpose
peace be upon you, my sister
for the blisters that brand your feet
are marks of struggle and triumph
marks of no tear shed for bitter love lost
peace, brother
to you and your kin
for you walk on rose petals of forgotten memories
of a childhood spent grovelling atop broken glass shards
have peace, if it wants you
because the cross-road we have come to
is said to undo
the very peace you have clung to