Sunday, April 13, 2025

God's Wounds - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

God’s Wounds

 

Sumy, Ukraine, Palm Sunday 2025

 

Ukraine wanted to welcome Jesus today

To welcome Him with the branches of willows

As is their custom on Palm Sunday, for they have no palms

But this holy day brought them Putin and bombs

 

Little children wanted to welcome Jesus today

They died with willows in their tiny hands

Burning in the wreckage, in their Sunday best

Sirens and explosions, screams and blood

 

The faithful of Sumy wanted to welcome Jesus today

But what Putin has written he has written -

                                          he has written them away

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