No Fences
are in view when we
capture world friendships
a Yarmulka, Bourka, Cap,
Fez and Burnoose
together as a parade of strength.
Jose, Avi, Lee, Joseph
and Mikhail, even Abdul sit
shoulder to shoulder
in a pew once held for
mourning services
sticks and stones, suicide
bombs, rubber bullets
now pushed aside.
Friendship is a new song,
where parents watch, with
prayerful thanks
for this scene of peace beyond
their own dreams, angry
voices mutating no longer.
© Richard L. Provencher
First published May 2006 in Poetry Sky, (only English-Chinese Poetry Journal in the world).
