Pray for your enemy, they expect of us

Non-violence, such is the creed of Christianity

Yet, no one hitherto heard the chorus

Voices of the silent in vanity

 

Our creed indeed we uphold

Non-violence, no physical combat

Troubled greatly, yet we hold

Pushed to the wall with fiery dart(s)

 

—SILENCE—

Not necessarily the absence of utterance and words

—VIOLENCE—

Not necessarily the engagement of physical strength

 

We are silent and still non-violent

To the sounds of butchering, we are

To the booms of guns and explosives, we are

To the inhumane endeavours of the wicked, we are

 

—Be Reminded—

Pray for your enemy, such prayer not specified

Now we pray as our humanity is defiled

Such as our hearts understand in this tide

Pray only we can, to be edified

Be it a prayer against the wicked

Such wicked, ‘enemy’ they are called

It is still for our enemy

In a state of defiled humanity

 

—I PRAY—

Much more than my enemy does to me

So be done unto him and his family

That the scriptures may be fulfilled

Pray for your enemy

 

—I PRAY—

In such a thousand fold, let him reap

Every single deed that he heap(s)

Like unto me as he has done

Be unto him in his fun

 

—I PRAY—

For him whose delight is in our killing

And comfort in scavenging us

May heaven like an infilling

On him rain coals of fire with unceasing cause.

 

If wickedness in this wicked age can be justified

Let such justification be replicated

If the enemies’ deeds towards me, as bad seen good

Here in lies my prayer

That as unto me, much more unto him

That the scriptures be fulfilled

Pray for your enemy.

 

—AMEN—

Inspired by the criticism against Papa David Oyedepo, on having cursed the Boko Haram insurgents.

Akolade Mayor L. (Versatile Saint)