Monday, 9 May 2011

The urban beatitudes

Blessed are not just the winners that society thinks are deserving

Blessed are not just the supermodels and the super-rich

Blessed are not just the conglomerate businesses, or those dripping with diamonds

Blessed are not just the nuclear families with 2,5 children

Blessed are -also- the penny scrapers, the city dwellers and the hustlers

Blessed are the prostitutes, the shameful, the forlorn and the addicted

Blessed are those who never dealt in social power, the marginalised and those who never felt they belonged in high school

Blessed are the brave, the wall flowers, the single and the married

Blessed are the pillars, the black sheep, the parents who can’t afford a nervous breakdown

Blessed are those who fail but keep trying

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness...

For they shall be filled.