Tiredness, tears
Tears and tiredness
Fatigue beyond my years
Tears and tiredness
Tiredness, tears
Calls for relief to unhearing ears
Tiredness, tears
Tears and tiredness
Standing watch to protect my peers
Tears and tiredness
Tiredness, tears
Hope for help as morning nears
Tears, Tiredness
Tiredness and tears
Padre
Written in honour of the community members that have posted themselves to protect their neighbourhoods in the present unrest in South Africa.
Padre's Ramblings 
I hope that the community spirit may conquer the unrest… that is the best way for it to end.
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This is so visceral and the repetition in this piece is chilling and poignant.
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Let us pray for an end to tiredness and tears.
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Oh I feel this so strongly… the tiredness surrounds us as we battle the pandemic still…. may it become easier for us all. Amen.
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My prayer and admiration to those acting to keep the children safe. They should not have to pay for the idiocy of some adults.
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The world is exhausted and weeping Padre, will the tears ever dry, will the eyes never close unto peace?
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My sentiments exactly. “Tiredness and tears”, that’s the broad spectrum of today’s new normal
Much💜love
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ahhh. those repeated words felt so real and heavy as the poem progresses. love the hint of hope at the end, albeit still tears and tiredness.
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The repetition really hammers home the feeling of tiredness.
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I feel the emotion in your chant poem …. well done!
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