Jude 17-19 New International Version (NIV)

A Call to Persevere

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 

18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”  19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

Metro, Oh metro!  Do you enjoy to see the worn-out folks

Day and night they move in droves in a trance-like way

It must be detrimental for the joy to be disappearing as

the only folks, who like to fake this,  are the tourists every day

The French are to be beautiful, but if that, they keep well hidden

The laborer and the workforce are dragging through the day

Life in France is beautiful, but only for the one exception

that is all or most of them seem to have lost their way

A land of pretty buildings and I just wonder who lives there

Palaces and monuments built for the empty few

The sweat of foreign labor still dwells up in the city

Flavors never to depart like a lost “mourning“ dew

Jan Wienen