Malika

It is not Paris we should pray for.


It is the world. It is a world in which Beirut,


reeling from bombings two days before Paris,


is not covered in the press.


A world in which a bomb goes off


at a funeral in Baghdad


and not one person's status update says "Baghdad",


because not one white person died in that fire.


Pray for the world


That blames a refugee crisis for a terrorist attack.


That does not pause to differentiate between the attacker


and the person running from the very same thing you are.


Pray for the world


where people walking across countries for months,


their only belongings upon their backs,


are told they have no place to go.


Say a prayer for Paris by all means,


but pray more,


for the world that does not have a prayer


for those who no longer have a home to defend.


For a world that is falling apart in all corners,


and not simply in the towers and cafes we find so familiar.

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