The Peace Sign
Was a symbol for
Peter’s upside-down death
His Crucifixion
Yet
His death was really right-side
up
As he ascended into heaven
To sit with his father
At least this was what my mother
told me
She said
This was the true meaning of the
hippie’s fork in a circle
It was confusing for my young
mind to wrap around
How could this be a meaning of
peace?
Of love?
How?
A man nailed to a cross then hung
upside-down to slowly die
How could this be a symbol for the
children of flowers?
Was their tie-dye perception not
tuned in to this info?
My mother seemed to be an expert
at telling dark tails
Macabre words flowed so easily
from her lips
It was just her way
To see all of the world and share
it
Bad or good
She told me once
When she was a child
She saw a little girl pulled from
the river
The child had fallen into a water
Into a moccasin nest
My mother said as she sipped her
coffee
That little girl had about forty snakes
attached to her small body
Their jaws locked into her ghostly
white skin
She was dead
Yes, my mother had a gift for the
dark
She saw the world for all that it
was
And never hid what was unpleasant
to see
This poem is from my book : Petals Falling
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