By Philip Quirke
BLEAK
news-on-a-loop numbs
embedded adverts bombard
the numbness into ennui
smart-phone connects some
disconnects more
atomises, isolates,
foundations shift
pillars crack
edifice crumbles
how now do we See
what Word can we hear
what Grace can come to us ?
the hungers of the heart
unsatisfied
RESILIENT
a monk or nun in the cell
silent celibate alert
winnows wheat from chaff
parenting before dawn
the child held for comfort
hope, and faith, and love
in our war zones:
cries of the wounded
outreach from peacemakers
for the ragged ones in our cities
an old man, a young girl
fill the food parcels
not by bread alone,
but that too.
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