Heavy Heart Full of Love #prayer #poetry #mission #Orlando #JoCoxMP

Such a week of awful news

TV full of doom and gloom

Fifty dead

Shot in a club

MP shot

Doing her job

Added to the wars non stop

And inequality that drops

The weakest in the darkest place

Without water

Without a home

All across the world they roam

And no one wants to take them in

They are blamed for everything

Why?

What has our world become

I do not know what can be done

But surely 

One thing we should see

Is that it's real for you and me

All this grief

All this loss

My heavy heart

Removes life's gloss

Today I want to shut it off

To close the door

Switch off the phone

Makes me want to be alone

And cry

And rant

And shout so loud

God of mine

Why do you allow?

And yet I know

That my dear God

Is crying too

Through all this loss

Seeing our world

Feeling our pain

He sees the evil

Repeating again

He must despair

At our lack of care

But when I start to feel it here

It's overwhelming

What can I do?

I'm just one person

As are you

But together joined with many more

Surely we can do, what's been done before

And make a change

Improve our world

To heal the sick

And warm the cold

To feed the hungry

And save the damned

We can't give up

We must make a stand

To shout out loud

Put down the hate

Love each other

Gay or straight

Enemy, neighbour

Near or far

Evil can not win this war

Love must open every door

So together stand

Together say

We'll help each other

Come what may

Through prayer and action

Donation, petition

THIS is our God given mission

With heavy heart I impart this vision

Can you make the same decision?

These images include:
Vigil for the LGBTQ victims in Orlando
Jo Cox MP campaigning for a stop to violence
Refugees in Greece taken by Amnesty International
Palestinian children queuing for water after Israel cuts their supply