Have You Not Listened?

The Sermon on the Mount 1873 - Woodcut - Author Unknown

Have you not listened?
You seemed to have turned away.

You look at wars and long for peace.

Your news media divides you, regardless of what you believe.

Those who speak for you, speak only for themselves.

Some hunger for bread when there is plenty.

Some wish for comfort, when they have a pillow.

Some long for Camelot, but that was long ago.

Have you not listened?

Your culture claims to have no need of ears.

You seek sameness when you are made with uniqueness.

You seek a moral high ground you cannot bear.

You embrace twisted ideologies that thrive in no garden.

Money is your god.

Power is your love.

Pride is your death.

From Eden to the Temple,

from the manger

to the cross,

sonnets of the truth are spoken.

Have you listened? 

Have you not listened, without twisting what you hear?

You seem to have dug your graves in sand.

Wars will always be, for not all children seek peace.

Division stands in its strength, as long as you are its stronghold.

The only one who speaks for you,

is He who spoke from the beginning.

Feed the hungry when you are full,

and long for a kingdom which has been promised.

copyright 2024 - Donald P James Jr