Right now, the world lifts up its sighing,
men, surveying their bloodstained deeds,
mothers, sobbing over their hungry children,
teachers clambering in the ruins of schools
destroyed by those who hate learning.
Right now, I forget, and continue a different life,
in a different world…
…which is the same world.
God forgive us all.
Sow in us the seeds of a new beginning.
Make us hard enough to act,
and soft enough to love:
give us the Spirit of Christ.