Saturday, January 12, 2008

Ashes

We beg God to save us
As we refuse to change
We cry for injustice
As we kill the children
We mock the restless
And can't bother to stay
We laugh at existence
We can't worry to pray
We are the fools
We are the dead
We are the unliving
We worship ourselves instead

Will the veiled sister pray
For children at the gate
Who will not go away and cannot pray:
Pray for those who chose and oppose”
 

T.S. Eliot