+ 3RD POEMS: To Yuk Wu-dang, After 2nd Maccabbees 12:44-45

I pray for you, Yuk Wu-dang:  yes, I pray in fervent hope;

your name, among those I think of praying my Prayer-Rope.

Because I love you, though (in time and place) from afar,

I consider and salute you as a brother,

I commend you, with the utmost sincerity

to our Gracious Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother.

Despite inhumane prejudice and human perfidy,

nothing can interfere with our innate fraternity.

God, Who is Love created us and blessed us to be

the honest and full expression of who and what we are---

the same purpose He has given to each and every star

that sparkles in His Universe and in our poetry. 


Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The Poet Yuk Wu-dang's mundane name was Yun Hyon-seok (1984-2003).  He was bullied to suicide by homophobes.

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