Summer 2020

Source: torntostar
heat depletes
hot exhausts
depending on where you’re from
sun is more foe than friend
still we stoke the fire
like locomotive lunatics
running out of rail
heaving coal into the hopper
STOP HER!
Who? Earth?
No, her kids.
They’re racing cheetahs
to her funeral.

Runaway train
full of dirty coal
and puerile goals
and, don’t yet forget,
nuclear weapons.

Greg Kennedy, SJ works as a spiritual director at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Reupholstered Psalms volumes I, II, and III; and Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints (Novalis Press).

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  • Caroline Maloney
    Posted at 13:14h, 13 October Reply

    Thanks Fr. Greg! Indeed we are like those “racing cheetahs”….along with nuclear weapons! Scary!

  • Peter Bisson
    Posted at 00:44h, 14 October Reply

    Thank you Greg!

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