Читать книгу The Eloquence of Truth - Father Ralph Wright - Страница 27

It is the consequences

of our actions

that condemn

by their enormity

the moments of our weakness

each moment of blind folly

blazing

whether behind the wheel, the blade

or in the bed

begets

undreamt of sadness

taboos used

to keep, like barbed wire,

us from our lusts

now

taboos are gone

and we abuse

God's mercy

we claim the freedom

to make children

of fake love

and temporary union

we claim the freedom

to hire our minds

for a passing high

and, bored with being

merely human,

aim to be briefly gods

we authorize

a mother who

cannot forget

the babe she feeds

to kill her child

before she sees its face

and if a mother

is authorized

to kill her child

what's to stop me, brother,

kicking you

out of my womb

we have no care

for all that is and breathes

upon our planet

and are prepared

to blow it at one puff

all out of being

but God who once

watched his Son

nailed by man

and left to die

still watches and accepts

the consequences

of making man

able to love

and — when he fails —

even of making nails