# Peace Day: Postpone No More!

From Charles Novacek’s Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance

My father could not understand

the mid-century chaos

that spread discontent

and disregarded peoples’ right to live in peace.

Silently I watched his torment

over the conditions in which we found ourselves

when the war ended.

Politicians had not—

and still have not—

learned enough from history to prevent wars

murder

starving

pain

destruction

persecution

slavery

and the practice of domination.

The war didn’t end.

  Peace was just postponed.