Monday, 20 July 2009

What Profit in Your Prayers?

I WAS HUNGRY:
and you set going a humanisitc association,
and you discussed my hunger.
Thank you.

I WAS NAKED:
and in your mind you debated
the morality of my appearance.

I WAS SICK:
and you knelt and thanked God
for your health.

I WAS HOMELESS:
and you preached to me
of the spiritual shelter of the love of God.

I WAS LONELY:
and you left me alone
to pray for me.

You seem so holy,
so close to God.
But I am still hungry and lonesome, so cold.
So where have your prayers gone?
What does it profit a man
to page through his book of prayers
when the rest of the world
is crying for his help?