<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392405" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Messianic Feeling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not waiting for a messiah<br>This is not a messianic age<br>Delightful though it is to live<br>Among nuclear devices primed<br>With climatic catastrophies<br>Set on automatic dial, and where<br>Ten million infant lives each year<br>Could quite easily be saved</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this is our collective will<br>Our tragic play in aggregate<br>Not providing proof of revelation<br>Or demanding divine arbitration, <br>The intervention of a saviour -<br>It's just the end, inexorable, <br>Of bad human behaviour</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there's no coming absolution<br>We'll have to deal with the mess we've made<br>And not be lazy or too proud<br>To bend down low to sort it out<br>Unless with characteristic grace<br>We just leave it for our kids to face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll be talking in the aftermath<br>Of brotherly love and how to live it.<br>Now who knows how to live like that? <br>Prophets of the god above<br>Have led us very long. Find me the ones<br>Who illuminate the human path</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ones who have the energy<br>To create the human song -<br>To protect the whispy spiders' webs<br>Clinging to the autumn leaves<br>Who smile during the harvesting<br>Embrace the winter cold, and those<br>Who guide the youthful flocks<br>Into the springtime fold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure, I've felt like saving the world myself -<br>The one that needs saving from itself<br>But then, another false messiah<br>Is the last thing that this stage requires<br>So I think you'd better not change your name<br>Or take that road to Istanbul<br>If you're waiting for anyone<br>To perform the passion play again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392405" data-title="That Messianic Feeling de Frank Bana" data-description="I am not waiting for a messiah This is not a messianic age Delightful though it is to live Among nuclear devices primed With climatic catastrophies Set on automatic dial, and where Ten million infant lives each year Could quite easily be saved Bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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