Definition of the theme future life free of violence and corruption from the poem prayer before birth
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Prayer Before Birth takes the reader into the womb of an anonymous mother, where a soon to be born baby expresses fear for its own future in a world potentially full of horror and danger.
From the opening stanza it is not an easy read but perhaps it is a necessary one, for out of the horrors of war come the possibility for hope and understanding. If humankind cannot listen to the pleas of an unborn child who can it listen to?
That repeated I am not yet born.... as if to remind the world (God, humanity) that there may be time to right things before the birth, that the world may come to its senses in time?
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