Wednesday, April 1, 2015

We Still Can't Redeem You Brother



We Still Can't #Redeem You #Brother

by Seah Greenhorn
(Poem with copyright)


Our eyes
cried for you!

Our minds, hearts, hands
joined

tried for you!

Our souls
passionately

died for you!

Yet,

We still can't
redeem you,
brother.

*

No man or woman imperfect
No king or queen humane

No pure/impure
simple
pauper

Can not
You

even redeem.

No words in earthly wisdom
spoken

No wealth of only one person
or of nations all

No present or ancient cure

can even redeem
our brother--

though

we lift him
when he crawls.

Our varied words
our noble actions--

unerring?

Never
enough will prove to be.

Our individual lives
decaying daily

can only
save

temporarily.

Our money
devalued in diversity

can not equal
the life
of any
human seed.

*

Stephen
Paul
John the Baptizer

Polycarp
even Socrates

Joan of Arc
Mohandas Gandhi

Martin Luther
King Jr.

Nelson Mandela--

at one point
thought
martyred too!

Truth seekers.
Great striders.

History
they shook.

Kept open our eyes
to dilemma's--

External;

Revolutionized

the world's
ideas in general,

and in the end

their
lives

they forsook.

Either

shot
stoned
poisoned

pinned

then burned at stake;

ashes
tossed
to diverse
rivers.

By whatever means--

enemies

closed their eyes,

in their
death,

after, all rights were amended;

Unfortunately,
their efforts

doomed.

*

In our basic
anxious
struggles,

Sometimes the past

we're
bound
too

forget,

as treachery increases
as morality decreases

more abundantly

we're forced
to accept

a

simple

humbling

fact

THAT

We still can't
redeem
you,

Brother.




http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150301/jesus-saves/

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