Gaza

Where Are You?

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There are times when I scream at the sky

Where are you!?

When I witness the mothers who have lost their children

When I see what the bombs have done to their homes,

Their hospitals, their schools and playgrounds

Their tents on fire

What kind of people are doing this?

What kind of god is letting this happen?

Why is no one stopping this?

In the silence I hear the answer:

“Where are you? What are you doing to stop this?

You have a voice, you have hands and feet

You are alive, you can do something.”

Why do we blame God

When it is people who choose

to love or harm

to nurture life or destroy it?

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Where is Ruth?

Where is Ruth?

It is hard to say

Love has grown cold

Now she is hiding away

 

Violence in the streets

The children cry

The strong take little notice

While the helpless die

 

Mercy is her sister

She has all but disappeared

without the both of them

It is Ruthless, as we feared

 

© 2014 Julie Clark

(Ruth means compassion.  As I reflect on the shocking violence in Gaza I wonder how the world allows compassion to be so overrun by ruthless leaders. How easily we forget that violence brings more violence.  If we live by the sword, we will die by the sword. The end never justifies the means.  They are one. May God have mercy on us all!)

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