The Stand

A man still in the darkness Who has never seen the light Is better than a man toying with darkness From the vantage point of light One knows and lives with the pain The other sees his own injuries and bleedings One only reaches for whatever to hold and retain Another well sees the paths and their leadings One a stickler for the ways of the ancestors Better he who remains until he finds new conviction Than he who tramples on God as one of the gestures Of one feeling free of need for his accumulation If the worldly want to keep their worldliness With cunningness, insistence and assertion Ye called by God's Name keep your godliness With faith, the Word, assurance and meditation Whoever know what to do and doesn't sins Whoever lacks by rejecting knowledge perishes Yes, endowment can come to one who gleans And a gleam can lead to the light that virtue relishes K. Muitherero