Does My Life Matter To You
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then NO Singing, Shouting, or Dancing Will Change that.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Marching, Protesting, and Breaking Windows or Burning Buildings Will Not Convince You Otherwise.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Creating Beautiful Art, Winning a Nobel Prize, or Becoming President Will Not Change Your Mind.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then A Pill or a Visit to a Clinic to Simply Erase My Existence, Will Seem like Business as Usual.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Marching Thousands of US in Below Freezing Weather to Another Location Miles Away in Germany or Other Neighboring Countries, Will Not Cause You to Blink an Eye.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Taking Our Children, Raping Our Men and Women, Enslaving Our Descendants for 400 YEARS and Calling it Civilized, Will Not Cause You to Think Twice.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Devout Muslim Brothers Waking Early to Drive a Car, to Bomb a Hospital filled with Innocent Children and Infidels, While Hoping to Get 10 Virgin Brides in the Next Life Sounds Like A Winning Game Plan.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Anglo Saxon Protestant Men, Who Claim to be Christians, Burning Churches, Mosques, or Hanging Black, Chinese, and Native American Men and Women In a Tree, Will Seem Like a Sunday Afternoon Treat, or Picnic Event.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then WHY Should I Continue to Build Your Schools, Businesses, Economy and Community?
Only to be told Repeatedly that I will Never be A Part of It?
To Say that I will Never Share Equally in the Fruits of This Great Country.
IF My Life Does Not Matter To You, Then Why Am I Paying Such a High Price Merely To Live?
Because My Life Matters To Me.
My Life Matters to My Wife, To My Children and the Community of Which I AM A Part.
MY Life ALSO Matters to Yeshua or Jesus Christ, So Much that HE Was Willing to Leave Heaven, Put On an Earthly Suit, Live for 32 Years, and Die Naked on a TREE. Just SO that I Might Meet Him One Day.
He Would Have Done it IF The Whole World Looked Like Me, A BLACK MALE.
Or Like YOU, NO Matter If You are WHITE, YELLOW, BROWN, or SOME OTHER COLOR Under the Sun.
SO I ask you, Does My Life Matter To You?
Sincerely,
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness.
Author: Paul Cumberbatch, (April 19th, 2021)
Copyright © Paul Cumberbatch | Year Posted 2021
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