Do not pray for peace
Until you yearn for justice
Until that yearning is so strong
You cannot be at rest
Do not pray for peace
Or reconciliation
Until you're filled with great desire
To make right what is wrong
Do not pray for peace
Until you loathe oppression
With so much holy raging fire
You cannot let it stand
Do not pray for peace
If you will not take action
If you cannot show God's own love
Unto "the least of these"
Do not pray for peace
If all you want is safety
If all that matters in the end
Is that you are not harmed
TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, March 2022
I don't know if this is a hymn or not. It doesn't fit to any tune I know, and I'm not a tune composer enough to make one for this text. All I know to do is to throw it out there and see if any hymn tune composers take an interest in making a tune for it.
Got it - may turn into a small anthem, or a oommunal song with a underlying drone that keeps pressing for an outward view and action.
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