On Speed Crash, crash Thud, thud Lives speed-ed up Whirling around A distracting hub Of meaningless behavior Don’t think for yourself How dare you! Especially about a spirit? Ignore, ignore The impertinent chore Of believing in A Savior! Believe every word they say To guide both night & day Allow that talk show host Over you to hold complete sway! Until he fails to break The enlightened spell & you at last awake Yourself to embrace In your Lord/Creator A cleaner, purer faith!
Consumer-ism Consumer-ism here Consumer-ism there Consumer-ism everywhere It travels by land, Travels by sea, Flies through the air! Consume it preaches Consume it teaches With long taloned Fingers it reaches To hold, enfold Everyone, us all Until the last remnant Finally is sold Taught by all advertisers Those oh so clever despisers Of thrift, economy The idea that you do not Have to own each & every thing you see! And so this culture rolls on Grinding out the same old song BUY, SPEND, CONSUME We continue to follow, Dance to their mesmerizing But false, lying tunes, That large volumes of things Bring us true joy Only more and more toys Will satisfy But still life hurts, disappoints And we softly cry Knowing somewhere inside Something is wrong What if, Instead of all the preaching Of material wealth (it is a form of belief) We as a people began to teach Not to be good consumers Of mere physical things But let our voices ring, sing good sellers, tellers of Jesus of Nazareth The Living Christ I will say it twice, even thrice God is the center of your being Only in HIM is life, true seeing Of love, joy, deepest peace It is of HIM we should happily teach And only, only of HIM consume!!
The Screen The screen That presence So widely seen In our homes Offices, Carried in Our hands Worldwide In every land Mobile Or desktop Laptop Servers galore In their memories They can store Anything And they do Spit out Whatever gets Put into them By us Coming thru Our hands The minds & Hearts of man That screen That influence I have seen Thick or lean Large or small Speaks & calls To us all Thru the light Of that flickering Screen Images of good Images of bad Calling our names Playing their games With everyone Angels & demons Portrayed in fantastical Images It’s really so sad Because both do exist In the midst Of the lives of man So be careful what You allow To be fed into Your mind Look for truth Elsewhere & learn to wisely turn from that Invasive Screen!
Everywhere we go today we cannot get away from the media hype(even in my gym) which surrounds us on all sides, slicing soundlessly through the air unseen. Please be careful what you expose yourself and your children to. Here’s a poem I could not stop myself from writing.
Senseless
Senseless Speech,
Buss, whir,
Chew out words.
Out in weightless air
Dead words drop lifeless
to cold, hard ground.
Careful, careful
Do not listen.
Everything is not good
In senseless speech.
Hide, do not cause your
pale ears to bleed!
Media, hype, lustful
For all money.
Beware the wrathful
Fierce fingers that search,
Dig deeply into pockets
Thinly stretched.
Guard your mind,
Here it comes.
Sensation seekers,
Senseless speech
Gets spoken to
Keep fat paychecks.
Everywhere we turn
On display on screens
Small and large.
Beware the fools, charlatans
Of senseless speech,
Guard, protect yourselves &
Run, cover the little ones.
SoulSails 