In the hand of a child
Amos 4:1-2
God’s Punishments Have Not Reformed ...
4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy,
Who say to your husbands, “Bring wine, let us drink!”
2 The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.
Fat and sassy
More than once confusion comes and that every few minutes
Organized and edited it appears like common sense
We dress it up with a suit and tie with really not much in it
Then we pick a name and make a hero of this gent
We display him with pride and everywhere we go
We introduce him with compassion as the deeper self
We elevate him high and everyone should know
That this person is a gift from comfort’s well
Puffed up and bloated like a fat cow of Bashan
We can’t even notice the harm we are inflicting
Piling on our Savior our emptiness from now and then
fluttering in nothingness with self-chosen affliction
In the hand of a child, a balloon is like a wonder
In the eyes of the beholder just puffs of hot air
A stumbling block to the first when it floats up yonder
And to the 2nd an attempt to get another round somewhere
Jan Wienen