I Wonder Where You Are In It All? Poem by Gert Strydom

I know of signs
of stars raining down
from the sky
and loosing their glitter,
of the sun
that doesn’t shine for a day
and the moon
that disappears for a time
and then hangs red as blood
and of the powers of heaven that shake.

I know about people trying to make peace
and how the world,
turns more and more to war
and how nations try to gain resources
from each other.

I know about famine
and deadly illnesses,
that spread unending over the continent
and about earthquakes that let cities crumble
and tsunami’s that brings deadly waves.

I know people in cities
that despises each other in the traffic,
who curse in anger,
who find joy from loose girls,
who hang out in nightclubs
and sit self-righteous
in the front rows of the church.

I wonder where you are in it all
and if Christ,
has a place in your heart.


[References: Matthew 24: 6-7,29-30, Joel 3: 9-15, Revelation 6: 12-13,11: 18,2 Timothy 3: 1-5.]