Snow of innocence, cover this fallen world. <br />Your blanket blots, in purifying white, <br />And blurs, our human legacies of blight. <br />Hail, flurry-flying flag of peace unfurled! <br /> <br />Oh, stop us in our common rush to war, <br />Our daily rounds that drive us all askew! <br />Blizzard the footprints of the past with new <br />Fields of such unity as no boot will mar. <br /> <br />Your mantle over all created things <br />God from His thoughtful, furrowed brow lets fly <br />Down through the grey, impenetrable sky, <br />Connectedness—White Revelation—brings. <br /> <br />Put to sleep our angry flames of violence. <br />Freeze us, even, till we hear Your Silence.<br /><br />Max Reif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winter-sonnet-awaiting-the-iraq-war/
