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I pray for peace
for war to cease
for kids to breathe
for love’s increase

I pray for youth
for guns to truce
for hate to lose
for freedom, too

I pray for calm
for respite from harm
for bombs to disarm
for cold hearts to warm

I pray for strife’s end
for foe to turn friend
for a message to send
for a better world,
amen

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Gregory (Greg) Pond was born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents, has written five books of poetry and is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. He is host of 3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown, facilitates Poetically Speaking, a weekly conference-call program for seniors and has curated events for Queer Rebels. He has read at the World Aids Day commemoration and currently resides in San Francisco.

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