For God's Sake Give us Some Reality

Nicely rounded explanations
Safe and sanitised solutions
A magic text for every doubt
A definitive answer for every mystery
A band aid for a life that’s torn asunder
“There, there everything is going to be all right”
FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY

The woman abused and left divorced, used and lonely
A teenage widow behind the love of her life’s coffin
A child whose legs have been blown off by a land mine
A township orphan to Africa’s HIV/AIDS pandemic
A father whose child has been found assaulted and strangled in a forest park
FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY

A recently wallpapered stable
Freshly washed cattle
Hospital perfumed straw
Carpenter with an extra mural in midwifery
Theologically sound eastern stargazing mystics
A perfect little baby “no crying he makes”
FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY

Impoverished and homeless
Germs breeding in the filth and squalor
Death squads in the dawn’s first light
Children’s blood flowing though the streets
Refugees running for the fear of their lives
FOR GOD'S SAKE, BORN IN THE MIDST OF REALITY

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