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PHOTO: Mangrove seedlings (detail, cropped), from Balaoan, La Union  by Olen Co

O, Great Minder of the Universe,

Look kindly upon our changing world,

Its ceaseless and ravenous revolutions,

The world we are not sure if it came from you

Of something that does not look like you at all.

 

If it please you, show us you care,

As we ever confound ourselves with what we see,

If you see as well or are there at all

Between our birth and our confusion

Between our search and our damnation

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Between war and compassion

Immigration and rejection

Rescue and savagery

Opulence and impunity

Mirth and ignorance

Need and greed

Wages and luxury

Globalization and tradition

Tourism and slavery

Internet and eternity

Arrogance and famine

Thirst and redemption.

 

Amen.

 

Marne Kilates

31 December 2017

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Once again the world turns,

The earth completes one circle round the sun,

Called a revolution, which is scary here on earth,

Especially for those who are afraid of the word.

 

Once again the world has turned,

Completes an astronomical, tropical, and

Equinoctial year, an infinitesimal bit ahead

On the orbits of a millennium.

 

O, Great Minder of the Universe

Once again I contemplate

The vast ineffable beauty of your creation

The miracle of having been or being here at all,

Of seeing everything and feeling small.

 

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Prayer for the New Year
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