希望渺茫 我却紧抓着
看着学生们的手
我想像这些手能创造什么
喔 耶稣 我从小就向你祈求
喔 阿拉 我父亲信仰的温暖的神
喔 你们这些 我兄弟以及陌生人信仰的神
一起将我们变成
专门建造这个世界的工具吧
让我们能创造
令人心怀感激的世界
而不再有任何但书
别让我们成了偶像或为恐惧驱使
别让我们过于安逸 忽略了他人的悲伤
不去终结那悲伤的原因
让我们别害怕这份工作
只因工作艰难
我们来移山
因为该移动的是山
喔 天上的神 我们体内的神
让我们能帮上邻居的忙
抚慰他们的伤口
让我们更像绷带而不是刀刃
除非情况使然
让我们成为剑
斩除逼我们远离家园的事物
对那些阻挠我们的
让我们成为他们的天敌
请给我们一个 温柔对待 我们 所有 所有人 的世界
阿门
Principles (after JFK) 05 by Danez Smith
hope is hard but i have it
i look at students hands
& imagine all that they will mother.
Christ, oh name i was raised to pray to.
oh Allah, sweet lord of my father.
oh all you gods of my homies and gods
of strangers, work together
to build us into tools to build
anything other world but this.
make us so that we may make us
a world we can be grateful for
not grateful in spite of
let us not be idol or stunned by fear
let us not be so comfortable that we
ignore another’s grieving instead
of ending what makes her grieve
let us not be scared of the work because
it’s hard
let us move the mountain
because the mountain must move
let us, oh lords above us and within
let us be useful to our neighbors
& tender their wounds
let us be more bandage than blade
unless the blade is needed
let us be a sword against what does not
bring us closer to home
let us be dangerous to that which fails us
and bring us a world good to us, all of us
all us all us
amen