Values in me and you ...

Luke 9:25 

25 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world

but loses or forfeits himself?

 

Values in me and you …

 

A right word invested in thought of compassion

A whisper here carried by the winds of time

Directed and guided by one’s own passion

To infiltrate hearts of those really “Thine”

 

An echo wavers from another dimension

Hitting the senses that are seldom used

Breaking thro layers of self-made pretention

In the dark realms of chosen self-abuse

 

Words are just words but actions speak louder

Hiding the aches of uncertainty deep within

Trying to hide and escape reality’s power

Triggering your defeat for all to be seen

 

Your acting starts failing in a quiver of truth

Your life resembles an incomplete pantomime

All you achieved really does not mean a hoot

As you struggle on against your pitiful decline

 

Once a shining palace now just a house of cards

Written in silence with uncoordinated figures

Reaching and clawing as truth seems too far

As you’re losing grip of things you can’t measure

 

“Long live the King”, just words you now whisper

You have no clue in thought who He might be

Made up in your mind as you lick the kisser

Of the prince of the world as now you vaguely see

 

A life of ignoring the Hand that was oft reaching

To pull you from the mire and your chosen mess

That you loved so much as you listened to teaching

Of folks just like you who were blind at best

 

Blaming the world for your misconception

Floating on hot air in a self-made balloon

Looking down on others who were the exception

In a world lost in sin that you treated as a cartoon

 

The day is now ending and a tally is shown

Only to you and your own understanding

Things you knew and to others well-known

Are now exposed just justice demanding

 

No excuse can be formed by quivering lips

Your heart now off-beat in anger and fear

You could have been the example on this trip

If you had died to self in front of your peers

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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