<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Bonhoeffer in Flossenbürg Prison</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">With B-17s roaring overhead,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> the sirens of the Third Reich</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">screaming to the heavens</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> and prisoners given leave</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to seek shelter in the clammy </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> basement of the jail, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">he’s welcomed into a circle </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> of pious Christians </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">blubbering their fitful prayers</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> toward the Almighty,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">so he joins the heathens on the roof</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> who, by the light of searchlights, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">bombs, and bright explosions</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> shoot craps in defiance of the odds,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">betting on anything at hand</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> including their own survival or demise.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">There among the ones who do not cringe</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> before terror or terror’s God,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">he finds a fleeting harmony</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> in what is left of this world </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bob Jones</span></div></div></body></html>