this morning i woke and from every corner of the earth came evil

i inhaled the loss of a mother, grieving for her child

i inhaled the barbarity and sin of an alcoholic father,

      laying carefree in his own vomit and someone elses blood

i inhaled the cries of anguish let forth from a thousand raped women

i inhaled the prayers of every dying man, knelt on the floor in hope

i inhaled a million tiny eyes, a million ears turned deaf by screaming

i inhaled god and jesus, both comatose with helplessness stuck high in heaven

i inhaled every defiled virgin, every desolate cry for water

i inhaled a single tear, shed by a brother we will never know

i inhaled pus, blood, vomit and semen

i inhaled grass, clouds, tulips and hills

i inhaled the seas and the oceans, the moon and the sun

i inhaled the quantum boundaries and the single cells

then i stopped

and from my bed i let loose a single word

(change)

a golden ray of light emitted from my mouth

and in it bathed the leper and the lost

the tortured mind

the cut throat razor

from my eyes there flowed the twelve tribes of Israel

the Buddha

the god-head and the allah

the beam cast a ray so, so bright that the very walls of time

     were painted with the hope of the ancients

and from a million voices turned upwards in thanks

i heard the word

(change)

and from my back did burst forth wings

wings of stained glass and autumn leaves

wings that encompassed the spectrum of light and colour

wings that shed the mortal skin of my being

the fabric of my sin

and i did bloom into the most beautiful butterfly

and a circle of a thousand thousand held hands around me

as i flew to heaven

and whispered the word

(change)

and from then on

we did so realise

that change was in the heart of every man

 

 

this morning i woke

and from every corner of the earth

did shine the sun