Are we facing a new deluge covering our lands,
COVID 19?”
Some say this Pandemic is a hoax, some disagree, but
could this phenomena be equated with those that
happened centuries ago?
An onslaught of water disrepaired
A perfect creation gone astray
Gods children had strayed
Until that final decision left God with
No choice, but to erase the results
Of crime and decay
To cleanse the earth from its evil ways
The people looked upon this scene
With laughter, sneering
A silly old grey headed man noticed
Not, he just kept on building his ark
The gates of peaceful waters unhinged
Torrents and floods broke through
The leviathan once forging the deep
Is tossed about, as the humped back
Whale, he became distraught
A great ship bearing eight people
And animals two of a kind, sped
Over trembling waters
And when Noah, his wife, three sons
And their wives lay down to sleep
Their boat shook and shuddered
The planks muttered with labor pains
About to give birth to a new world
Of the old none would remain
Loosing track of days and nights
Of darkness, only light from
Visiting angels wafting their wings
With heavenly light
Claps of thunder roaring
Holding on with each other
For dear life
But God had said, forty days
And nights then you shall emerge
Replenishing the earth
And they remembered His
Promise, no sea nor
Pain of this global event
Could prevent this ship
For it bore the progenitor
Of man and beast
Even though the waves increased
And when God looked down with a
Frown on His face
And saw the devastation
He had to take
Never again would he destroy with waters
What he had made
A tower of safety with its watchful
Eye would always follow the sailor’s
Plight
He blew upon the deep as the boat
Slowly floated to Mt Ararat, hidden from
View, and it takes a lot of faith to
Believe all that
And centuries later another great event arose,
Ten in all, plagues sent
On a haughty king that refused
To believe, to let God’s people go
His servants laughed at the words
Of God’s humble man
Spurning his warning
But he and his armies all died
In the depths where a road had
Been divided
Down through the age
Many more disasters fell
These calamities spurned as well
Again a remonstrance from above
“Bring all your children apart as
Another great deluge has fallen”
A great pandemic encompasses
Our globe
Some with fear, some with lack
Of heeding the warnings told, refusal
To comply with safety protecting
And so the havoc of COVID 19 is
Happening
Could this be the beginning of the
Four horsemen and their warning
Spilling their potions on the lands
In mourning?
John of Patmos, called deranged
His message and his writings spurned as
Well
Escaped a boiling pot of oil
persecuted for his faith, down
through the ages his writings
presented to kings and royalty
often rejected
But God’s love is inviting all to
Come, receiving protection from
all of these things
For where else can we go?
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