The never-ending Good Friday
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Sackcloth on our backs
Ashes in our mouths
Wailing loudly and bitterly
We mourn our dead.
The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic
Awakens me to the truth
We need more fighters, more youth.
The promises from West
Turn out to be a blasphemy:
The rich mired
In such maggoty apathy
Over the mountains,
Black clouds scud
A perverted vivacity
Holds sway in the blood. .
Killing as they go
Blood on the floor.
Refugees waiting
Knocking at your door.
Seeking sanctuary, they say,
Christendom has fallen away
Collapsed from within,
Deep, deep in the luxuries of sin.
Oh! I’m glad I never fell in love with you
Jesus.
I’m glad that I do not have to speak
On these endless, numbered days:
Of Daesh barbarians
Selling Yezedi girls as sex slaves.
Leaving children chained up naked
As they die
Christians crucified, mass graves,
Images that will never fade
No crystal ball
Needed
No prescience
Heeded
Let us pray,
With ashes in our mouths,
For this new day
As iron enters the soul,
In a world
Suddenly grown old.
John Marks
Tue 7th Dec 2021 14:27
Strongly felt and fluently angry Keith. We all should be angry. Muslim majority States in the middle East have conducted a 120 year genocide against Christians and other religious minorities. We ignore these First Christians at our eternal peril. Over a million (1,000,000) Assyrian Christians have fled persecution, genocide and forced conversions. The UK , to our shame, has given sanctuary to fewer than 4000 Assyrian Christians.