Mislead the children ...

Proverbs 11:1 

11 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

Proverbs 11:31 

31 If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth,
How much more the ungodly and the sinner.

 

Disappointments come and seldom leave

They seem to carve self into memory

Just a hint some words to wake one up

Like the rest, we perceive as history

 

Is lying acceptable to be explained as the common good?

Is it alright to mislead an entire population?

What can be accepted more than a simple truth

from a life lived as a lie without any desperation?

 

Is that why our children stray searching for honesty?

Becoming now unfulfilled and addicted to our nature

Examples like our lives: “Showing to have no clue”?

About our own addiction only the flesh to nurture

 

Are not children falling close to the family tree as time goes on

Following examples of parents searching for value in the dark

With inherited love of money, they buy all the things so wrong

As generations run their course with no awareness of the mark

 

Jan Wienen 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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