Friday 29 August 2014

We went to Jerusalem

In our silence

In our prayer we went to Jerusalem.

We wanted to find peace

So we went to Jerusalem

The city on the hill

The city of peace.

 

In the city of peace

In Gaza

We found layers and layers

And pieces and pieces

Of people.

 

The people were in pieces

Messed up in their minds

Bombs blasting their bodies

Spirits suffering and seared

 

And we sighed.

We want to find peace in the city of peace.

 

Together in the silence in our prayer

We found pieces of peace

sitting with us

in this room.

That's all there is.

Pieces of peace.

 

"Peace be with you

And also with you."


First written on August 16th 2014 after a Vigil for peace in the Holy Land at Kent University, Medway Campus

Dedicated to Professor Nick Grief, Human Rights Lawyer, University of Kent Law School

Updated  December 9th 2023 Advent 2 Peace

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