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Niyi Osundare

Papal Response

“God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war*” Proclaimed the Pontiff His hand steady on his Staff His faith confirmed by kindly fact His voice steady

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April 11, 2026·1 min read
Papal Response
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“God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war*”

Proclaimed the Pontiff

His hand steady on his Staff

His faith confirmed by kindly fact

His voice steady and gracefully bold

Did that Voice unsettle their roofs

Grand Obliterators who gulp

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Foaming blood from the skulls of vanquished foes

And the flock of bootlickers who harvest

Glittering medals from fields littered

With fallen dreams.

Latter-day emperors, cannibal in their quests

Obscene in their utter bestiality

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War games, death games

Skies saturated by fireworks

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Drones primed for murder missions

Widowing, orphaning ordinance

From the forge of those who populate the world

With the plague of ceaseless mayhem

With nuclear grains in their silos

Terrorists who trace the trail of smaller terrorists

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‘Pro-life' propagators of endless wars

Guns in their guts, pillage in their plan

Hoping, with their caravan of corpses,

To drone their way to Paradise

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*Bless you, Pope Leo XIV

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