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Will I Wait for the End of Time?

By Larry G. Duerme

The author is a Columban seminarian from Salawagan, Quezon, Bukidnon doing his spiritual formation year in Cubao, Quezon City. Here he shares to us the poem he wrote as product of his reflection attending the Laudato Si’ – Awakening The Dreamer Workshop.

Will I wait for the end of time?
When the last heave of breath is gone?
When all that I see now are dead?
When the beautiful created things of this life are already shattered?

Will I open my eyes to see what has just happened, without even thinking of what’s going on?
Will I just forever close my ears to the cries of the suffering world?
Will I just keep my hand forever neat and attend only to what I need?
Will I just keep my feet off the ground and just shake the dust out of it?

How can I be so naïve to the growing issues of the world?
How can I be so greedy and feed only my need?
How can I be so careless even when I know that I already contribute to the damage of this world?
How can I be so lazy and make no effort to care for the earth?

Should I just blame others for what has happened?
Or should I just not bother because I still have many things in my hand?
Should I just leave the problem because time will pass and humans will become extinct too?
Or should I do nothing because the things I think should be done wouldn’t be done by any other?

But Lord, before I leave this place, grant me wisdom and grant me the grace I need.
Help me to not confine myself to safety; for every life is in danger if I just allow the wrong to continue.

Open my heart to dwell in your living presence, the Holy Spirit, and open my eyes to see.
For if these are the only things I have in mind, please, Lord Jesus, inspire me to change my perspective and fill my mind with true love for Your Creation.

Accompany me in my planning and make Your Plans my plans.

Amen.

(CELL, February 7, 2018)

Columban Spiritual Year Students attending the
Laudato Si’ – Awakening the Dreamer Workshop
Center for Ecozoic Living and Learning (CELL), Silang, Cavite, February 7, 2018