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artist: Matthew Stuart |
We pray for women
who through the ages
have had recourse only
through their wiles,
through the stomachs of men,
the pleasure of men,
in order to be heard.
We pray for peoples
oppressed and persecuted,
life in constant threat
from empire builders,
dehumanised, victimised,
yearning for a saviour.
We pray for leaders
inebriated to blindness
by their own power,
by position; deceived,
undermined, undone,
and their people with them.
We pray for women
who find a way
to break the silence;
for the disempowered
who find the strength
to endure, to survive, to live;
for our leaders
to find their way back
into integrity, and their
people waiting,
waiting
Amen
So we truly pray
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