<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;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Give Us This Day Our Daily Life </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 22px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Forests, oceans, meadows, their habitats</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">made uninhabitable, snatched</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">life from life.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">As the living are fodder for the powerful for a hunger</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">that has no end.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Children, mothers, fathers, where life is snatched capriciously </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">and in the cities, the tender and passionate freedom cries torn</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">from mouths of protest as</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">what we value, our health, our votes, our homes,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">work and art are recklessly extinguished for a greed</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">that knows no limitations. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Look, oh look, into the eyes of all creation </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">we have condemned, taken lives without warning</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">from everywhere. There is no safe haven. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">The endangered are now our air our water our soil </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Plans for better ripped away. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">The future crushed.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">A world with its head on the guillotine,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">the chopping block where</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">no good news is coming.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We drown daily in the gagged silence,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">in daily massacres, truth deserts.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Our voices snatched by fear</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">and grief too weighty for words to lift,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">to hold in syllables,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">that few have the courage to say.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We can try to hide in spurious bubbles of hope</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">but we are suffocating. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">And madmen brandish salacious</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">lies and threats </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">to explode already crumbling hearts.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">How easily killers win with their</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">pathetic illegitimate triumphs.l</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Our faces are raised from the earth’s death row.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We plead for mercy for the earth who </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">looks up from her bombed torched land who lifts</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">her charred and mutilated body, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">for thousands of the floundering helpless </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">for lives of the innocent who look up at all that has failed them,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">for the horrors of their suffering being covered up.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">We beg our beloved dead,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">our heroes and wise ancestors,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">our defenders of truth and love and justice, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">but their voices too are snatched away,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">as we grasp desperately </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">for something to save us.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">And deliver us from this evil. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Amen</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gail Onion</div></div></div></body></html>