Written in collaboration with
Howard Langford and Reverie Zurba
17 more youthful ‘seeds’ buried in the ground. 1
17 more youthful ‘seeds’ buried in the ground. 1
We enjoyed their presence when they were all around.
Why, oh why are they all now so deep in the ground?!
Our nation to the ‘god of guns’ still remains bound.
Living, loving, and settling in for the day,
Not knowing what foul plan was lurking their way.
Without a plan, they ran for their lives and their health,
As folk on The Hill enjoyed their ...NRA wealth.
Young lives snuffed out before they matured,
Yet we still don’t heed what God adjured.
Such senseless violence that stifled their sound,
Occurs when in schools all things godly …are bound. 2
By faith, not fear, He said to live.
Of this He’s been quite assertive!
While faith produces that for which we hope,
Fear produces what we don’t want, no joke!
On our money, we print, In God we trust,
But it’s now the god after which we lust!
With more guns than we have of our people, 3
It’s to those gods we have become faithful.
Don’t think because many here are Christian,
We’re always protected from destruction.
God said there’d be ‘a great falling away’.
Heads up! Of that, we’re in its matinee!
Is America, with more Christians than most,
To become the promised ‘falling away host’?
As we tightly grip our power-less gods,
Do our lifestyles reveal …we may be frauds?
This poem is not about guns, as you may think.
It’s about our lifestyles that before God stink.
It’s not about money, so don’t have a fit.
It is about our praise, worship and love of it.
These are dis-eases of lifestyles affluent,
And of world leadership that’s now arrogant!
If we don’t change, God may come to regret,
And on our affluence, let His …sun set!
Take heart, to this picture there’s a clear remedy--
Get in the flow of what God calls ‘life, righteously’.
In His Bible book, He gives many examples,
There He reveals His Spirit who us enables.
In each era, God made sure a remnant arose,
Folk who survived, then learned from His chastising blows.
We’re witnessing a new generation coming of age,
Now approaching voting age.
Will they help us turn the page??
Let’s pray they will heed examples of nations that traveled,
Roads America is now on, that have become gravel.
Of our ‘national trip’ may they lead us to survey,
And find ways to get and stay on God’s righteous highway.
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Though they died in violence that wouldn’t cease,
May all their souls find everlasting peace.
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1 This time, in Florida.
2 Fifty-five years ago, June 17, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court declared school-sponsored prayer and Bible readings unconstitutional.
3 Civilian and military
3 Civilian and military
