PRAYER TO RESIST DESPERATION

Lord!
No, I will resist
to the despair that comes,
and I won't run away.

I won't go to some ivory tower,
away from men,
fleeing this world with thought.

I want to stay in the middle of this world, as it is,
to this world where we fight.

I want to stay in my place.
I'm not that great, of course.

What can,
in the midst of all this chaos,
the little light of a consciousness,
faint light that the night will absorb?
And yet, my God,
I have to fulfill that
for which I was created.

I have to testify,
and say, and show to men
that there is something other than darkness,
different from screams of fear,
different from these incendiary speeches,
from invasions.