Comfort One Another... Amen... Poem by Denis Martindale

Comfort one another... Amen. Yes, noble words indeed...
Strengthen each other once again... that's how some may succeed...
Measures of faith and hope and love... and science at its best...
Beyond the prayers that seem enough... desires to be blessed...

For Man observes disasters well... he learns from past mistakes...
When life becomes a living Hell... each time a victim wakes...
When burdens sabotage the strong, the young, the meek and mild,
Such that their sorrows last so long... yes, even for each child...

But starving children lived and died... yet who rushed to their aid?
Or comforted each time they cried, when they were sore afraid?
Their plight by billions stayed ignored... by wealthy men and wise...
Why then seek answers from the Lord who knows the day each dies?

But God plans for a remnant yet, a portion left to live...
A fraction left without regret... when God more life would give...
They may endure disease a while, but healing's on its way...
They may wake up without a smile, but sorrow fades away...

But who can tell who lives, who dies? Which ones see Christmas, too?
Each one who shops, each one who buys enough to see them through?
The man who drives to work alone? The woman who walks home?
The man whose heart stays cold as stone? The man who writes a poem?

And yet that remnant perseveres for God protects them all...
Beyond this year and future years... for that's their miracle...
But only if Man strives and fights diseases everywhere...
Obedient to God's insights against each new nightmare...

That's why hygiene is vital now... to stem this filthy tide...
A firewall that's meant somehow to separate and hide...
The fools will act as each fool must... regardless, come what may...
But I've got faith, in God I trust and that's why I still pray...


Denis Martindale April 2020.