Of Gods and Men

Men of cloth Men of faith Against all evils, lost hopes Choose the light and will of the gods They stay Where all others flea They reflect upon lost causes Yet give of heart and sweat to the poor They are not brave hearts They are but kind souls To the last breathe Weep not for these heroes The village adores and praises For kindness transcends religious teachings To cure and heal is god's gift And natures way of life eternal Pascal’s wager in the minds of a few As old men contemplate Wildflowers who by the grace of god, receive the sun So in fate, planted, they stay, they do not run They are not the last or only They are but the hope of what can be They reflect the goodness we all desire In love of mankind Des hommes et des dieux, dedicated to the Trappist monks who lived in harmony with the largely Muslim population of Algeria, until seven of them were kidnapped and assassinated in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War.