Pakistan
school attack - hymn
It seems inhuman, who
could kill
a single mother's
child?
What bitter hatred
fires a man?
It seems they had run
wild.
Good God, could you not
intervene?
Yet once upon a cross
you interposed your
human life
and suffered utter
loss.
Is this the answer that
you give:
use love to counter
hate?
And have we courage,
dare we risk,
before it is too late.
These children died as
martyrs to
the violence we can
spawn,
and still we pray, but
will we act
to bring a peaceful
dawn?
© Andrew Pratt
18/12/2014
Tune: AMAZING
GRACE
Hymn written in
response to the Taliban attack at a school in Peshawar killed 141 people, mostly
children.
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