in this fickle ripe world
of politics
and personality clashes
all is possible
it is possible to be highly
esteemed then fall
from favour like a flash
of lightning with a single incident
real or imagined
being cause of a life changing fall
all is indeed possible
when the flawed human heart
is an instrument of judgement
and power rides without reason
hear the beat beat beat of heart
over-impassioned raging reasonless
casting former friend enemy off
into punishment inappropriate
undeserved ill measured
ill conceived lacking compassion
fortunes of war fate famine pestilence
an ill wind weather unseasonal
the push of a button flick of a pen all
can overturn a lifetimes gain
in a moment of ill fortune
all being lost in but an instant
there is no security except in good will
so often it bears the strangest fruit
is repaid in the strangest way
and even when all is lost no hope
eventuates upon earthly horizons
a wealth in heaven awaits faithful souls
who sought none to hurt and many
to help for it is written
“love your neighbour
as you love yourself”
And who is your neighbour?
The whole world is your neighbour!
And love covers a multitude
of sin and sin covered is forgiven by God.
All will fall in death regardless of station
attained in the measure of each life given.
Who then will prepare real hope unfailing?
A shadow of death is communion fall common to all!
Who then will a wise soul decide is worth pleasing?
Love always has rewards well worth attaining!
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
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This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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