Flagging

A friend on facebook posts

a picture of a ‘flag of peace’, sharing it

from a site called ‘Imagine

Peace’. The caption
says, ‘Fly the flag

of peace’ — and I want it to be

a signpost, pointing

in a single direction, not a

flag waving in the breeze according to

whatever wind is

prevailing at the time, in

whatever place the flag is

planted. But I am wrong of course: you have
to be wrong if you object

to a flag of peace; we should all

be grasping it, waving it, fair

in the faces of

any old war-monger out there. Only I

wanted clear direction, and

there isn’t one really, except

I suppose, not to

fly flags

of war.

31 Poems in 31 Days (Poewar / Writer's Resource Centre). Prompt: Use lines of varying length, either end-stopped or enjambed. As I usually end-stop, I decided to try enjambment.