Peace

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~ Baruch Spinoza

Peace for an individual
is not an absence of war
or animosity, feuding, enmity.
Instead it is in the manner
of Lincoln as the Civil War
neared an end.
"With malice toward none,
with charity for all,
with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right."
Peace is acting as our Higher Power
moves us, loving each person,
those of whom we always thought fondly
and those with staring rolls
as we wrote our Fourth Step.
Peace is a virtue residing in our hearts
without fail.