{"id":112960,"date":"2013-11-03T01:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112960"},"modified":"2013-11-12T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T11:23:52","slug":"god-is-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/god-is-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=+Arjuna+Parakrama++++&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\">Arjuna Parakrama<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_112962\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/god-is-amazing\/arjuna-parakrama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112962\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112962 \" alt=\"Dr. Arjuna Parakrama\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arjuna-Parakrama.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Arjuna Parakrama<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forgiving us our filth, She\u2019s even found some use for CHOGM now, for<\/p>\n<p>Colombo\u2019s rat-addled graves have come alive,<\/p>\n<p>Fooling fossorials that there\u2019s fresh flesh galore to feast on.<\/p>\n<p>But even worms are said to turn at times, not us, this Lankan (supper) middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The grandest graves look grander now, the small are tiny, all fittingly piled high with decay,<\/p>\n<p>Chuck is due, the dead must be on show: Trees are chopped, walls painted, gates fixed.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s visiting white men killed in their old wars; we\u2019ve seen more, and don\u2019t discriminate so much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note, this dressing up\u2019s on the surface, stuff goes on below, and that\u2019s unchanged,<\/p>\n<p>Since we\u2019re only rats and mice here, and, of course, lemming thinkalikes.<\/p>\n<p>God or Charles who cares, give old Caesar his due: Our departed<\/p>\n<p>Sleep happier, now the Army has cleaned them up.<\/p>\n<p>Not so for the Wanni\u2019s ungrateful dead. So what? Let corpses burden the living there,<\/p>\n<p>Serves them right for dying like flies for rotten terrorist causes. Embarrassing us, <em>machan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The deities do not forsake lightly, but when they do it\u2019s murderous, and eternal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like CHOGM\u2019s choking, small mercies, trifling gains betray our hopes<\/p>\n<p>For pavements, clean streets, walkways, beggarlessness, soirees, websites, and these<\/p>\n<p>Separate us from those who really suffer beyond our ken; yet<\/p>\n<p>God is wonderful. In her deep pockets our trust is stashed. Guns protect her (and us)<\/p>\n<p>From minorities and NGO human rights; Thank Goodness and the State, that\u2019s history now.<\/p>\n<p>God loves our country as we do, only traitors criticize, or crooks, for gold and gain,<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll fight the world, those jealous hordes, and win. <em>Gods are with us, just you wait and see.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, proxy demi-devils oversee intricate political economies of rats, mice and worms,<\/p>\n<p>We share more than family resemblance with vermin now; they\u2019d do well to follow us<\/p>\n<p>Feeding on the living and the dying in the refurbished graveyard of our times,<\/p>\n<p>Bartering life and death for some crap, burrowing or cheering as others burrow<\/p>\n<p>In not-so-underground labyrinths of violent cash. Or we complain over coffee in nuanced despair.<\/p>\n<p>Better than the rest, that\u2019s us, here, now, and, at least for me, it\u2019ll last for my forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who needs gods, when we\u2019re already in just heaven?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":42573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,6968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular-columns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>God Is Amazing - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/god-is-amazing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"God Is Amazing - 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