Sunday, August 10, 2014

Every death diminishes me...

My Sunday prayer:

Something to think about...








 Every death diminishes me
as a human being...
a little dying inside
each and every one of us...

We've become hardened,
inured, desensitised,
of these terrible
painful violent occurrences,
so commonplace,
so frequent, so every day,
so expectedly newsworthy...
 heart-wrenching realities,
yet,
so far away,
remote, forgettable,
 benumbing...

Let's pray
that common sense,
tolerant humanity return
from the cusp
of self annihilation,
to peace and tranquility...

Let every human soul
be given the chance,
the potential
to self-actualize and grow
to celebrate
to rejoice
in this great
multi diverse world,
to evolve, to create,
to agglomerate
a humane collective
consciousness
and development that
 supersedes our selfish
parochial individual selves!

Let not
any single soul
be prematurely
truncated
by the gratuitous violence
that we see
erupting
in so many parts
of our troubled
amoral and 'godless' world...
 oftentimes
in the incongruous name
of self-righteousness,
religion and race...

Let us pray for humanity...

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