Approaching Easter (your thoughts?)

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Open Poetry #25

Approaching Easter (your thoughts?)

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2003-04-10 11:11 AM

Approaching Easter

Suicide missions,
death by friendly fire
delivering the final blow,
in the name of peace,
a holy war.
3000 slain
on a sunny, Tuesday morn,
camera’s rolling,
we took it all in,
almost as if it had been a Hollywood scene
created on a WB back lot.

Babies in a dumpster
hands of the hungry
raised in fervent pleas,
and we, feeling as if
our hands are tied
our minds too fried
to find a way
to help or pray.

Is this the reason
this holy season
is so hard for some
to comprehend?
Is this why
His mission of love
not hate
that sealed His fate,
and promised ours,
seemed akin to suicide?

Is desensitivity
the true proclivity
of finding less
in His sacrifice
His gift of pure,
perfect love?

Is this why
full recognition
of what He’s done,
the war He’s won,
to place us safe
in the Father’s hand
is so hard to understand?

©April 10, 2003

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

machiner
Member

since 2003-03-13

Posts 67
MA, US

1 posted 2003-04-10 11:26 AM

I fu&%#ng loved it...but I felt like you wanted to say more.

Did you?

I'm pacing now, yelling at my walls for the apathy of us.

Thank you for sharing, and forgive my language.

The more I read this, the more I think you said enough. Good read, good poem.

[This message has been edited by machiner (04-10-2003 11:54 AM).]

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