Change 2
Job 17:12
12 These men change night into day;
they say, ‘The light is near
in the face of darkness.’
Change
If through intelligence and thinking deep
for better the world could change
Why when men make light, artificial bright,
is darkness still too strange?
They lighten up day and night
no windows now in need
and still to see beyond one's nose
seems a miracle indeed
Inventions here … inventions there
every "progress" now is seen
Much more pain on this lonely train
as it "trackless" goes where it has been
The human mind not really kind
unless on self it feeds
Full of appetite but seldom right
to fill its selfish need
“One for all and all in one”,
an artificial battle cry.
For one by one… “love each other” is gone
and also “God with all your might”
One nation called "under God"
just makes it one below
Looking up and serving not
as slowly down the drain it goes
To wind up in a sewage pond
where odors rise in mass,
now add perfume and hold the nose
and think that it will pass
By holding that big old nose
so past the hand it cannot see
It stays and follows the path it chose
so it never will be free
Enslaved to be to freedom still
as sheep in love with the fence
While deer in marvel roam at will
energetic and never dense
The sheep just clutter in one flock
helpless and thoughtless as they be
May be "all for all" is not a shock
if the True Shepherd lives with me
Jan Wienen