Pray

Brian Sankarsingh writes a poem about...a difficult topic

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This was a tough poem to write. It was also after incredibly careful thought that I decided to publish it. As with all my poetry, read into it what you must and take from it what you can.

Pray that you never live so long 
That you become the thing you hate most 
Pray that you never go so wrong 
That you feel you’re beyond reproach 
Pray that the people who are with you 
Never see what you have become  
Pray that as your sins accrue  
Your heart doesn’t go numb  
Pray that your conscience awakens 
That your heart is opened once more 
Pray that your faith is unbroken 
And you don’t become something you abhor 
Pray that the “monsters” you fight 
Don’t turn around and fight back  
Pray that your “heavenly birthright”  
Can keep you on track  
Pray that you live what you say you believe 
Pray that you’ll find absolution 
Pray that you are never deceived 
Or have others pray for your destruction  

 

Bio: Brian Sankarsingh is a Trinidadian-born Canadian immigrant who moved to Canada in the 1980s. He describes himself as an accidental poet, with a passion for advocacy and a penchant for prose, an unapologetic style, he offers his poetry as social and political commentary.