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What the World Needs Now

I study the words of

and pray to a person who

plumbed the depths of human suffering

who came on the other side intact — maintaining

a piercing perception of

the terror

the insanity

the desperation to be loved

pulling the strings of humanity’s clenched fist

suspending and releasing

suspending and releasing

blood spilling red

blood drying brown

on our noses

on our fists

whose blood is this?

Indestinguishable

I study the words of

and pray to a person who

embodies the consequences of

humans forsaking their humanity

— the sacredness of their very being—

by denying the sacredness of another’s

I study the words of

and pray to a person who

peers into our throbbing souls

and cries

Forgive them, for they know not what they do

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