EBBA LINDQVIST
TRANSLATED BY JANICE D. SODERLING
Give us today our daily bread.
You ask what we mean?
Well, by daily bread
that doesn’t contain too much strontium 90 and give us not too high a dose of radioiodine 131 in our breast milk so our infants won’t be damaged already before their first birthday.
Can you please make that your will?
We ask in this prayer
that you allow those heavy clouds
charged with nuclear radiation
to drift up to the Arctic regions
without damaging any living thing,
not the grass, not the herbs,—
and relieve us of our charge
over the fowl of the air
and the fish of the sea.
Deliver us from our dominion over the earth. We seem to have totally lost control.
And that’s a fact.