'Beast Within' (To All Of Those Black Friday Idiots!) Poem by Linda Winchell

There is a beast that lives within!
some however, have control over its rage.
But there are some who seem to unlease the beast
releasing it from their inner, beast like cage!

You can view it on the news tonight!
as shoppers trampled and even kill.
Only to be the first to save on their purchases
trying to control anothers shopping will!

Adults seen camping out on sidewalks!
all night, in front of retailer's shops!
Just to save a buck or two
and on stupid things, they waste money dropped!

What has this world come to?
That we now act like savages, in our Christmas shopping quest?
And what are we showing our children and family?
It sure isn't any of our best!

God did not make us to act this way!
As those who had nailed Him to the cross!
All to control what they felt was their right!
Then this poor man of goodness paid the cost!

What happened to that thing called, self control?
When we go and do the things we do?
There has got to be a better way
to use that better side of you!

All to save a dollar on Christmas gifts?
We should be ashamed of ourselves!
That we would trample down the innocent and murder!
Just to get a bargain?
Off of a storekeepers shelves!

You may have saved a buck or two
but at what cost?
For you've not gained a thing in God's eyes
and are now amongst, His LOST!

'Merry Christmas! '