A Prayer

By Beverly Greene

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(AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is not an anti-God poem or anti-Christian. This is simply a poem about the normal feelings of a human being trying to understand the daily horrors of this world.)

Where was God
when the children
of us all
were ripped out of loving arms
and thrown into the fiery pits
of hell here on earth?

Where was God
when the woman,
our mothers
were beaten,
and raped,
and murdered?

Where was God
when lovers
were punished
just for being lovers
because their love
was called homosexuality
which meant wrong?

Where is God,
now in 1995,
when children are beaten,
raped,
murdered,
torn away from their families,
from our future
daily
by strangers
from the livingroom?

Where is God
when a woman
screams out the name,
in vain,
hoping,
needing,
bleeding,
screaming,
pleading,
begging,
for mercy of body and soul
from evil
here
searching with appendages
for our pain,
their pleasure?

Where is God
when lovers are hated
just for loving
a lover
because she's a lesbian,
wrong,
evil,
sin,
and stones are thrown,
rapes,
beatings,
harsh words
to wound the soul,
all to incite fear
of their God,
reminders
that their sin
of hate
is better
than our sin
of love,
proved by the abstract
meaningless words
from some old book
created,
dreamed up
by some strange men.

Where was God?
Where is God?
We still hurt,
we still need,
we still die,
we still plead.
No answers then.
No answers now.
We are left
to wonder how
God could possibly
ignore our cries
over the ages,
and tears,
and fears
of God's creations.
Where is God now?

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