Things We've Glamorized (Poem)

We’ve glamorized murder for the sake of making a buck.¹

Then wonder why with so much evil America’s struck!

We’ve glamorized idols in music, dance and the like,²

In this, we have essentially said, ‘God, take a hike!’

We’ve glamorized being very rich in all this world’s wealth,

Concentrating wealth, sacrificing societal health.

We’ve glamorized physical beauty as the ‘ace of spades’.

Then we’re miserably desperate when beauty
quickly fades.

We’ve glamorized power, and lusted after its influence,

Though we stagger under the weight of it’s

corrupt fraudulence.

We’ve glamorized prowess with partiality,

Thus, we pump up people’s prideful pomposity.

We’ve glamorized outstanding athletic abilities,

Knowing short careers often end with long-term injuries.

We’ve glamorized our military’s power and reach,

Though trusting in this opens a spiritual breach.

We’ve glamorized youthfulness, and from this

we’ll not restrain,

While the elderly and their wisdom are

scorned with disdain.

We’ve glamorized ‘PROUD-ly being American’ -- free.

‘At least we know we’re free’,

though PRIDE-fully deceived.³

We’ve glamorized sex, any/all kinds, the whole world over!

And what did we get?!

Nothing we’ve glamorized that’s older.

Will we ever learn the key lessons from human history,

That what nations glamorize …becomes their

downfall misery?

Since nations comprise people who are just like you

and like me.

Nations’ downfalls start with our ‘imaginations we emcee’.⁴

Friends,

The list of things we glamorize is long and getting longer,

While lives of many are getting increasingly gloomier.

Most of what’s glamorized, ends up on a high pedestal,

Much with consequences that are outright unethical.

As you ponder the points this poem signifies,

Check your heart and ask, ‘What do I glamorize?’

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¹ Consider the proportion of our entire entertainment industry, on which we all feed, that daily accentuates murder and killing …for audiences of all ages!

² Ever notice the incredible praise, honor, adoration and apparent worship we give to music stars, compared to that which we give to God, who created music to glorify Him, and who created the people to whom He gave musical gifts, people whom we then worship …more than Him.

³ Excerpt from the song, Proud to Be An American, by Lee Greenwood. The Bible affirms throughout that God hates and punishes pride, satan’s first sin. He insists there is only one thing in which we can be proud! (Jeremiah 9:23-24. Check it out.)
⁴ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) NB: There are four (4) Bible references to the word, ‘imagination’ (add Genesis 8:21, Luke 1:51 and 2 Corinthians 10:5). It is noteworthy that they all cast the imaginations of the human, un-regenerated heart in a negative light. Check them out.