OUR FRIEND [4]

There's an echo in our land
So many pray to God
Who know him not
Unaware
That what we do - are
Determines if we see
Beyond the shade
To know the love he has for us
Empty words
See empty church
Not of men
But God
For when we know him
In our heart
Know he is in each of us
For each of us to love
For if he is without
But lives yet not within
Then we are
empty
Empty shell
And not rain
But tears do fall
The anguish of our God
For how we treat our friend.

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THE FUTURE [5]

I see the beauty
Others see
But I see its demise
And I glory in the life
I see
But cry
For what must be
But I'll not ever
Be
Content
Until my words are heard
Then
If change in heart and word
I see
Growing to ethereal bloom
That shall be the glory
To me
Knowing life may yet secure
Safety
From the blight
Of now
And in five hundred years
Children
Of our children's
Children
May smile
And laugh
In a new way
Unclouded
By that blight of now
For this
I'd give my soul.

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NONE ARE SO BLIND
AS THOSE THAT WILL NOT SEE [6]

The light of day
Gives way to night
So too it goes
With you and me
With eyes open
We are
The more blind
And hasten
To oblivion
With moral shouts
Of right and wrong
Yet still we go
Ever more deep
Into the morass
Social decay
A rot that starts
Right at the top
Personal gain
More dear than pain
Caused those below.
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TERRIBLE CLEANSING [7]

When man pollutes
Where is his conscience
To the damage done
Upon children at play
To wildlife
All defenceless
Which continue to pay and pay
And yet, still
Conscience
Takes a rocky back seat
To the so-called
Necessities Of man
His survival
To his eternal growth
Now so dependent
On narrow sight
Afraid
To take a stand
To listen
To his heart and soul
That ever show
The wrong
And we deteriorate
Until
Finally
We do explode
That horrendous bomb
A
H
N
Or whatever’s new
To cleanse
What in peace
We only destroy.
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GOING HOME [8]

For Jesus
The ultimate plea
Misused by man
From year to year
“Father
Why
Hast thou
Forsaken
Me”
But at the last
He knew
The truth
And said it not again
For we cannot
Hear, sing, see, feel
Or think
As does our lord
Except
What is done
Happens
Or will be
Is ‘just’
And done
For love of us
So that
If we cannot understand
Then we must accept
For God
Is leading us Home.
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