Litany Of The Poor and Oppressed: Beseeching the Oppressor (a poem)

A poem I wrote this evening after coming in from sitting by the pond and looking at the clouds and watching the birds. The poem is titled:

Litany Of the Poor and Oppressed: 

Beseeching the Oppressor. 

The poem is to be read by one person and the refrain "you want profit", or in the case of the last two stanzas the last two lines, are to be spoken by a chorus punctuating each stanza. 

Litany Of The Poor and Oppressed:

 Beseeching the Oppressor

We don't want the things you want,

we want employment

Chorus:  you want profit.

We don't want the things you want,

we want clean air and water

Chorus:  you want profit.

We don't want the things you want,

we want friends and neighbors

Chorus: you want enemies

and profit

We don't want the things you want,

we want peace on earth

Chorus: you want endless war

and profit.

Benediction:

May God grant us employment.

May God grant us clean air and water.

May God grant us friends and neighbors.

My God grant us peace on earth.

Amen.

Poetry By David H. Roche

(C) 2014