Pakistan school attack - hymn

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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