Desolation

An extra poem today, mourning the at the devastation wrought in Sri Lanka by the bombs on Easter day. Blood stains are seen on the wall and on a Jesus Christ statue at the St. Sebastian's Church after blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than two hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured in eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday.

Desolation

Witnesses to faith, weep this day
Burnt, bloodstained, torn apart
Easter ending with a heavy heart
The evil when men go astray

In fire and anguish, cast away
Desolation planned, an evil art
Witnesses to faith, weep this day
Burnt, bloodstained, torn apart

Here bombs to maim, bombs to slay
They crucify, such hate impart
But peace will not be silenced or depart
Tends the wounded, comes to pray
Witnesses to faith, weep this day