PEOPLE, WILL YOU WEEP FOR US AS WELL?”
In the year Two Thousand Twenty
In the third month of March
A national day of prayer
Had been declared
There was a pandemic scare
Spreading across the world
Now six months later and not
Much better
Cities pillaged by mobs
Streets once safe no
Longer rush with throngs
Of people
In the thoroughfares
In amazement we questioned
“How could this be?” an
Illness we did not understand
Nor how to treat
It came upon us slowly
Then rapidly circling the globe
Doctors and nurses short of
Supplies
Willingly gave their lives that
Others may live and not die
Have we slept in peace and safety
Lulled by a lie?
Thinking we have all we need
Proud and free in a land of plenty?
What will it take to bend our knee
And offer our cry?
Our hearts are troubled
Have we strayed too far
From the God of heaven?
Have we spurned His love
He has so lavishly given?
Have we now been forsaken?
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Funeral Of A City
A story of antiquity is told, of a
City once dressed in rich garments
Of gold
A royal city with grandeur and
Abundance, of perfection among
All nations
Lifting its splendor
Where God and His temple abide
In the proud City of Jerusalem a
People reside whom He
Long bore with His grace and love
Their safety lay in rules and
Traditions, refusing to accept
The King and His salvation
~~~
With a fountain of tears
A woeful man cried, pleading
Forty years he warned this
City
Only to be scorned and beaten
His message ignored, he
Wrote a book called
‘Lamentations’
But no one listened
How lonely sits the city now
Like a widow in sackcloth and
Ashes
Ravished by a heathen nation
Her walls of protection and gates
Are broken
Her children taken bondage to
A Babylonian nation, worshiping
gods forbidden
These men had turned
Their backs and hidden their
Hearts
~~~
Could this holocaust that has
Stricken our lives be a warning
We who may be living in the last
Tribulation?
Can our cities be restored, their
Gates and walls of truth and right
Be reinstated?
Oh Jeremiah, you who wept for
Your broken people, will you weep
For us as well?
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