Lamentations
 

paradise and hell have always been here on earth
humans creating and destroying
creating God and Goddess love of which there is none
without human compassion
o Jerusalem
eons of bloody sacrifice by human hands
destroying innocence of children with self righteousness

now, 2,587 years later
with nothing learned and nothing changed
I would pray for a Divine Bulldozer
to scoop the granite bricks and religious icons into a giant ring
to circle one gigantic pit and I would pray
the rains will come and stay
until there is water enough to cleanse this unholy land

a lake of divine intervention
gentle waves lapping children's feet

but I can only add my Lamentations to what is already written
even if I prayed and a Divine Bulldozer intervened
nothing would change
without humans learning compassion.

- Thomas Henry
 

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