Apologies to God

God, we owe you an apology.

 

We call upon your name to justify killing each other.

Your lesson was to love each other.

 

We call upon your name to justify raping women and murdering babies.

Your lesson was to love each other.

 

We call upon your name to justify taking each other’s land and homes.

Your lesson was to love each other.

 

We may call you God, Allah or Yahweh.

Yet you are One.

We may call ourselves Christian, Jew, Muslim or gentile.

Yet we are one.

 

One, teach us to be one again.

Sisters and brothers, neighbours.

One, teach us to live in peace again.

As sisters and brothers, neighbours.

 

To feed the hungry.

To give shelter to the homeless.

To take care of the sick.

To help the poor.

To teach the children how to play together, to love and live in peace.

 

One, forgive us for not following your lessons of love and humanity; one more time.

 

To ban evil and to restore peace.

 

By Alex Verlek ©

 

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