Waleed J Iskandar

We Pray
Your stay was so short

My little one,
down what centuries of light did you travel
to reach us here,
your stay so short lived;
in the twinkling of an eye
you were moving on,
bearing our name and a splinter:
of the human cross we suffer;
flashed upon us like a beacon
we wait in darkness for that light
to come round, knowing at heart
you shine for ever for us.


( by Hugh O'Donnell, S.D.B.)
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