God and a drop of oil is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Maha Bechara

CONDEMN THEM

-1-

I drew a picture for You in my eyes,

More beautiful than the world,

I've hidden You in my heart,

And burnt my heart as incense for You...

With Your stars,

You have changed the darkness

Of my days into light,

To shine and sparkle everywhere...

You are eternal,

Change me...

Make me a bird...

So I can fly to Your paradise

And live Your love...

O Jesus!...

Only You,

Can wash the sins away.

-2-

You are the baby

Who is born,

In a cave...

And the night is torn

By its offenses ...

With the street people groaning at night ...

With the matured wine...

Let the sun shine more tomorrow

Let the prairie speak to the lily

And let my country be free of agony and pain,

Let it live in the blue atmosphere, in peace...

You are the Son of glory and power,

Don't let my country die!...

Save it...

Let it be born with Your nascence.

-3-

Only You can help us...

Save us...

From disasters that keep hitting us,

From war destroying and separating people,

Who have sold their religion.

Do not leave them..

Renew their faith with Your compassion...

And take them to Your haven of love...

You're greater than a master...

O God...

You are fraternising with us...

Take the black times away from us,

From this earth...

Where the evils are playing around.

-4-

We didn't know that life was too short,

And that our end will never change,

Till we planted the lie...

And let the black evil go higher and higher...

Everywhere we look with our eyes,

We see the white colour turning into red,

We are hopeless...

Help us...

Save us from the Big Monster...

Which is chopping off our hands...

Which is taking away the peoples' lives

To become inebriated from their blood.

-5-

There's no life without You,

O...Son of Mary,

The world is without a faith,

‎The world is dominated by apes.

You, who decorated the universe

And created the people

With different skin colours

To prevail in equality...

And get the colours mixed,

But they hated You...

They hated the purpose,

They became shy of the human colour

And killed each other intentionally

Red,

White,

Yellow and black.

-6-

..That girl who You created

And planted life in her womb

To become a mother ...

Joining her family under her wings..

She became a piece of merchandise,

Selling herself.

... And that man

Who You gave the key of life,

So he could give birth to a new generation,

He became a drug pusher

A pleasure seller

To test his poison.

On his children.

-7-

I loved You...

Without seeing You...

You were the spirit in my body,

Living in my heart beat

In the vitality

In the strong arm...

Send me to sleep

And make me rise as a sun

In the darkness of the oppressive nights,

So the people with melted candles,

Can take the light off me...

Then..

I will deface graves

And illuminate places.

-8-

Let me walk on Your way

By myself,

Which will take me to Your love.

Your men were numerous...

But they got reduced to few

When they walked the stages

Of Your crucifixion...

... And the religion

Which You have drawn

To take Your people to heaven...

They sold it..

And they pretended

That they were praying.

Condemn them all

Without pity...

They all pierced Your heart

With a spear.

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