prayer for the monks

one of these days i won't be able to stop myself
i'm going to have a real old rant
about all sorts of sadness and silliness
but today i'm going to be very brief
just something that needs to be logged blogged
and hopefully dialogued with someone
there are just too many sad, bad and downright awful things
going on in this sad old world of ours
that only an eternal optimist could dismiss
as being of no great concern
and for the greater good
a struggle of civilisations
the war on terrorism
and lots of other spin
but i think today we have reached a new low
there was a headline on the abc web site tonight
that i stared and thought this is really bad folks
police beat burmese protestors it said
including students and buddhist monks it went on
now it says a lot that these gentle people are out in the first place
in huge numbers to protest the military rule they live under
maybe they knew it would come to this
but please surely we don't need to beat them up
i'm praying with them for a peaceful resolution
what a great example they are giving to the world
solidarity, conviction, peace, prayer, hope
please let the monks be