Sunday 29 April 2018

Righteous man


Righteous man
If I could follow God’s great plan,
I’d be a selfless, righteous man;
Renouncing any tempting goal,
I’d save my long corrupted soul,
And passing through the needle’s eye,
Behold the highest of the high;
There to rest where God did sow,
Gardens, through which rivers flow.
If I could shun material things,
Resist the pull of Satan’s strings,
Be immune to avarice, lust,
And all things destined to be dust,
Will I, upon the end of days,
Have angels speak of me with praise?
Or will, in want of sage advice,
My pleas for clemency suffice?
Righteous is the one who fears,
The dawn of fifty thousand years,
For on that day the dead will rise,
And enter hell or paradise,
According to the lowest height,
When scales have measured left and right,
And it will be well understood,
That left is bad and right is good.
I’m not following any plan,
I’ve never been a righteous man;
Is Satan real? Does God exist?
My goal is pleasure, I insist!
And even if I could endure,
And face the final judgement pure,
The doubts that none, save God can see,
Would likely void my guarantee.





Thursday 12 April 2018

Get ready for war



Get ready for war

Distorted opinions
Holding the floor
Get ready for war
The flags wave
Pretend lions roar
Get ready for war

Refugee children
Dead on the shore
Get ready for war
Black white brown
Rich man and poor
Get ready for war

Left right middle
Extremist bore
Get ready for war
Man in the street
Says what’s this for
Get ready for war

Scared atheists cry
The religious implore
Get ready for war
Peace activists gasp
Restrained by the law
Get ready for war

Youth middle aged
Ten and three score
Get ready for war
Babies pre- schools
Two three and four
Get ready for war

The finger of blame
Points to the door
Get ready for war
The blameless suffer
The angry ignore
Get ready for war

Woman with child
Exhausted and sore
Get ready for war
Push out a statistic
Scream till you’re raw
Get ready for war

The truth or the lie
Both matter no more
Get ready for war
Cos “it is what it is”
No cause to explore
Get ready for war

Who started all this?
You’ll never be sure
Get ready for war
Is this Armageddon?
Is that what’s in store?
Get ready for war

A sudden news flash
An outburst a furore
Get ready for war
Go figure out
What you just saw
Get ready for war