Written piece
Promise Threader
Theresa Vialva
Trinidad and Tobago
About this piece
This poem captures the possibility of peaceful co-existence inherent in ‘threading’, an everyday activity common to all societies: human, plant, animal, natural environment. Beyond color, race, religion, economics and politics, let's thread peace together, fiber by fiber!
Promise Threader
Thread
Thread bare
peace
worn to pieces
torn by wanton
Greed
Fueled
By fear
Of the other
Difference
Distance
Clouds of unknowing
Thread
Thorns
Between two loves
Yet
One kiss
Surges
The fate
One Kiss
Unfurls
The eternal
Promise
Thread
Thread-bearing
Needles
Needle
Open wounds
Reveal the browned
scar covering
Let Truth thorned
And enthroned
On a Cross
Criss Cross
Over
War-torn veils
To re-thread
Peace by piece
Tred softly
At this threshold
Threader
Piece back
The Peace
Understanding
Knowing
Beyond right
Beyond wrong
In open tapestry
Apart from fear
There is heart
Heart
That alone
Sews rightly
Tred
Softly
Thread
Promise Threader
Completed by
Theresa Vialva 04-06-2026