A Testimony to Disorder- Today 7/18/09

“Lord may this sacrifice which has made our peace
with you advance the peace and salvation of all the world.”


Every week
I hear the priest speak
These words
I have to wonder
If everyone has heard them
If they are understood
If it does any good
To say them at all
Take a look at the news
See another wall fall
At some hotel
At someplace I have never been
Will probably never go

That doesn’t make it
Any easier to see
The impact is real
The first thing I feel
Is to wonder whether anyone
Can prevent further tragedy

Then I realize the motivation
Is total alienation
Annihilation raised to an art
As part of a master plan
To make the world a chaotic place
To invade everyone’s personal space
To engulf them in an argument about God

This same path has been trod
For thousands of years
What has been learned?
What have the peaceful gained?
The terrorists know that fears
Are an effective weapon
So another body burned
Is a victory

Their interpretation foments hate
So it is the fate
Of the pacific
To witness horrific scenes
Engineered
Through increasingly sophisticated means
As a testimony to disorder