How to explain the light of day?

Zechariah 10:2 

For the idols speak delusion;
The diviners envision lies,
And tell false dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wend their way like sheep;
They are in trouble because there is no shepherd.

 

How to warn your children ... How to show the way?

Is it not important then ... to teach them when to pray?

How to show the signs and to explain the light of day?

Is that not important then since there is a price to pay?

 

Why are dreams sufficient ... to build islands of illusion?

Why is that escape normal ... as reality brings confusion?

It is not acceptable that it is easier to practice how to live

someone else’s life preferable ... as we’re not expected to give

 

Searching on the outside ... staring there in hope

to find what lives deep within ... as we in helplessness grope

for anyone who brings us ... buckets filled with an emptiness

that we swallow quickly down ... to escape our loneliness

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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