Making Our Father Proud Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Within us,
Are the souls.

Within us...
Are the spirits we live.

We should clean up our acts,
And stop tarnishing our souls.
Treating them like our foes.

They have one of those too!
Like me and you.
Within us.

Within us,
Are emotions.
And some of us give them too much time!
Irritating them with self obsessed whines.
Yet others have no clue or notion...
Where to find theirs.
Or how to feel them when they're found.
If anything is there at all.

And we accuse someone else.
Anyone!
For not knowing who we are...
How we feel,
Or when we feel it!

Within us,
Are 'our' souls!
Ourselves we don't know.
Not from the soul!
There are too many of us,
Who do not show that we do...
Know within us,
Are 'our' souls!

We have chosen to make excuses!

Within us,
Are the spirits we live.
Shouldn't we be giving
Them good treatment?
And sharing that...
With our 'soul' brothers and sisters?
Making Our Father proud.