Are you serious?
What do you think
I pass out
misery and evil
and ....grace?
You think I'm looking down
from G-d knows where
saying:
"Time for that man to lose his legs
Head injury for that mom
Amputation for her daughter
and death for her eight year old son
A lifetime of anxiety
and sleeplessness
for that rescue worker
Oh and these guys
Their early years
will be filled with
family suffering
maybe
hostility, neglect
or abuse
just enough to
starve them of compassion
and plant seeds of fear and rage
On top of that
I'll give them some
social isolation
job or school problems
depression or other mental illness
Then
I'll bump them up
against a radical community
of wounded others
Or maybe I'll just
give them a horrible
early start and the rest
will follow
Lastly
I'll set them
in a time and place
where violence
is celebrated
where they'll have no problem
buying or making things
that can kill a lot of people
There
Perfect
Wait
I still need to get
all these folks together
maybe at a marathon
That should do it
Oh yeah
and for the rest of you
Here's some grace
You'll be fine."
Is that what you think?
Don't flatter yourself
You could've been
any one of them
and not because of me