The poem reflects on the speaker's impending death, expressing forgiveness for their killer and praying that their death may help bring love and understanding between all people. The speaker's last thoughts are of God, entrusting both their killer and themselves to God's care with the hope that they will find each other again in Heaven.
The poem reflects on the speaker's impending death, expressing forgiveness for their killer and praying that their death may help bring love and understanding between all people. The speaker's last thoughts are of God, entrusting both their killer and themselves to God's care with the hope that they will find each other again in Heaven.
The poem reflects on the speaker's impending death, expressing forgiveness for their killer and praying that their death may help bring love and understanding between all people. The speaker's last thoughts are of God, entrusting both their killer and themselves to God's care with the hope that they will find each other again in Heaven.
looms If today I must drink from this cup full The wind carries sand from distant of bitterness desert dunes I will lay down my life for you, With echoes of cruelty and cries For this people I love unheard For the man who will come with a And evil that bears all the weight of knife the world In the dead of the night and will take my life from me A nighttime of hatred reigns in hearts and minds My last thought and my last prayer will The rage of injustice makes us all go be for you blind The friend I meet in my final moment The man who in fury takes the sword Who knows not what he's doing and fights You can be certain No longer sees it's a brother he strikes I forgive you from my heart May your bloodstained hands be washed All the world as he means it to be by these my tears Different peoples one family And may you only feel the presence In God's face I will finally discover Of a love you've never known The image of my face and that of my Love which I hope one day will grow brother In your soul My last thought and my last prayer will Some people will think that death has be for you prevailed The friend I meet in my final moment They'll say love is weakness and mercy And in God's hands I leave you has failed In his forgiveness And yet I believe that the Heavens will I commend you to his care open I hope we shall find each other once Then we shall know even as we are again known In the endless joy of Heaven We'll see God face to face I believe One in the Father's warm embrace In the gaze of the Father I'll see all Of us all humanity In sha'Allah In sha'Allah In sha'Allah