Poetry
Slow on the uptake, the bone is thicker there.
There’s not much here at stake. There’s not much to fear.
I’m followed by an enemy, who looks a lot like me.
I cling to my Mercy, clinging to a faithful tree.
Being nice seems too ugly, I would rather be kind.
Even the nice often act smugly. They also seem so blind.
I don’t want great faith to move the biggest mountain.
I just want a place by that joyful Fountain.
Failing prophecies and ceasing tongues are here for today.
I don’t want them, or I’m undone. Afraid I’ll vanish away.
I could speak in spiritual tongues and be seen as nothing.
But to love like the Son, that would really be something.
I could fight the god of this age. Pray to bind his wicked life.
But I’m to bind impatient rage, a greater sacrifice.
Deeper things seem to leave me with an empty soul.
To die inside on that old tree I rise again as whole.
I poured my goods into a coffer. It rang like a cymbal so brassy.
The greater challenge: my life to offer, something eternally lasting.
I have a body that I could burn in some beautiful temple.
But it seems I have learned love is beautifully simple.
Faith and hope are good on earth, where I won’t be staying.
Love goes with me, with my re-birth, where you’ll find me playing.
So I choose the greatest of these, the Father of the Truth.
It won’t be a life of ease, but it will be a life with proof.
© 7-14-09
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You have a lot of scriptural truth in this nice poem. You really got me thinking!
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