AUGUST NINE, 2006

AUGUST NINE, 2006

How many folk, devoid of thought,
Joy ride along the way
To the airport with things they brought,
With no idea of delay?
Confiscation will demand,
On this terrible flying day,
All liquids that they have in hand,
Unless packed for baggage bay.

There are those who seek to kill,
And feel that is their Father’s will;
That we are pagans to wipe out;
Of this they seem to have no doubt.
Have we really failed to show
Just how far we’ll really go
To serve in love all mankind?
If this is truth, are all men blind?

Or have we really failed the test
That God would give, in His quest,
For brotherhood in all the earth
By coming here in Jesus birth?
Have our deeds denied our words;
Have we failed as God’s shepherds,
In that we have sought our own,
And not bowed before His throne?

He came to bring abundant life,
Not to embroil us in this strife
;That teaches us to hate and kill,
And build anew Golgotha’s hill.
It was He that bore the cross,
And it surely is man’s loss
When he builds peace by war,
And thus forgets who we are.

We are servants to love and lift;
That is the Christ’s special gift,
To help mankind, who may be blind
To opportunity of every kind.
This may be out of reach
Unless we take the time to teach
That human grasp exceeds his reach
If he can grasp what love can teach.

Godly love knows no bounds
Allah’s love supports those grounds.
It is man’s interpretation
That pits a nation against a nation.
Neither God nor Allah hate;
They are One, and did create
The world, and all that in it is;
So why do we take Evil’s quiz
By taking one side, or the other,
Against our own created brother?

May man spend wealth on needs that are;
Not create needs by heinous war!
May swords refashioned to plowshare
Bring peace and harmony everywhere!
May war machines be extinct
And love of man become distinct
To co-create with Power Divine
The world for which we do so pine.
Orion N. Lewis, 8-09-06