BURNING WICK

February 13, 1993

Cowardly is the man
Who digs up blame,
Just because he knows he can
Toward men who died with honored name.

None have lived without some flaws.
Christ says only God is good.
No man knows, nor keeps all laws;
This is true of all manhood.

Then why defame the honored dead
Often models before our young;
Basing blame on what some said,
Who might not speak with honest tongue.

Weak the man whose claim to fame
Is based on some salacious story
Attacking one with honored name
In his attempt to rise to glory.

Strait character in man nor nation
Is learned by watching crooked sticks;
But light in all of God’s creation
Is gleams released from "Burning Wicks".

Wicks of love and service true,
Held high for all mankind to see,
Until at last our beak through
To know release in Calvary.

If all the good the world has known
Were done by only "Perfect People"
Our finest tools were stick and stone,
For Eden's story would have no sequel.