This was my first published poem, back in the Spring of '95. I edited Underground, a newsletter for the young people in the area with a church connection. We were desperate for material and being teenagers, shameless self-promoters, so we filled it with our own spoutings.
One decade on, new life is brought to an old pome, that probably should never have seen the light of day in the first place:
People love me,
I love people.
People hate me,
I try to love people.
People are indifferent,
I get annoyed with people.
People hate and harm those close to me,
I'm fuming, steaming, inflating, almost bursting.
Then God says: "Hold on."
The words of a song come back to me.
I think of what we did to him;
All these things and worse,
BUT God still loves us,
Cares for us, helps us, supports us.
That's true love.
Please accept it - We all need it.
Isn't it great that we have the freedom for three people to disagree on one page of the world wide web?
I would disagree in the sense that I believe God does exist past the explainations and theologies which we have put up. Hence there is 'something' divine in spite of our attempts to prove it or disprove it.
The kicker for christians is that we believe that divine something took on human flesh and had to muck about with the rest of us here on earth. All the bad and the good. And that divine/human tries to show us a better way of living.
Which includes loving people even when they hate you. So I like the poem, as it is.
Posted by: David | September 17, 2005 at 07:37 PM
Thanks for the comments (I know this is a little late.)
If you want, I could dig around in the vaults for some truly frightening stuff.
Posted by: Timbo | October 18, 2005 at 06:09 PM