Understanding self ...

Job 31:11

“For what would be wickedness,

yes it would be iniquity deserving judgment”

 

In this world today ... to separate right from wrong

would be easy in black and white ... but in shades of gray?

Since judgment is slow in coming ... hell is ever expanding

one cannot look at justice ... and judge by the prices paid.

 

What is deserved right now ... cannot be the measure.

What will be the future ... is not ours to see.

So we turn to scripts of man and hope to find the answer

but now it looks for certain ... that iniquity is all we reap.

 

The rulers of this world are not George ... Dick and Donald.

They seemed formed somewhere ... in a place called “pre-destined”

Am I than a fatalist? ... That could not be the answer.

Maybe more of a realist ... in whatever that needs testing.

 

That brings us to reality ... whatever that means.

Is this in the things I perceive...  but not the way they are?

Is it any wonder then ... that I am so confused?

In being deceived by self ... I must be right thus far.

 

To understand myself ... can only be done through others.

Have them lead me by the hand ... to tell me who I am.

But only truth will come ... if they do these things in love

and that my friend is beyond us ... not for us to understand.

 

“Love your neighbor as yourself”... that is where it starts.

What if you don’t love self ... is in such easier to love another?

I think to love God above all ... and then to love your enemy

will help to give what’s left ... to your neighbor and brother.

 

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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