My Prayer-Poem for the 18th day of Lent, Saturday 6 March 2021

The Nun of Myanmar


What are you doing Sister Ann?
Why are you standing there
with arms outstretched in Myanmar’s
angry and bloody square?


Why are you talking to those men
with passion and intent?
Don’t you remember all your vows
Perhaps you should repent!


It isn’t seemly or correct
for nuns to scream and shout!
you should have stayed in silent prayer
Why did you dare come out?


Lord, send your holy angels now!
This nun has lost her mind.
Send them to rescue her before
she’s beaten or confined.


My daughter Ann has made her vows
thank you for pointing out
the duties of Religious Life,
what being a Nun’s about.


She is indeed obliged to pray
with chastity and peace
but what she did in Myanmar,
resisting the Police


and pleading with the military,
with no thought for her life,
is nothing less than prayer at work,
daring to join the strife.


The outstreched arms of Sister Ann
in Myanmar’s despair,
follow the footsteps of her Lord’s
self-sacrificial prayer.


©️Mark Andrew Smith
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