Famine
Written: by Tom Wright
3/29/03
The dove of peace flies clear this land laid waste,
where life is sacrificed daily for a misguided belief.
Those responsible voice mellifluous words in haste,
living sumptuously, while commonalty seeks relief.
For the uncaring, God, esteems with arrant disdain,
as children's bulbous bellies, in number, are as sand.
With vociferousness the caring unite in loud refrain,
oft shedding tears that only God would understand.
Success
By
Tom Wright
11/97
Man's carnal mind measures Success as
Education,
type of lifestyle,
designer clothes,
house size,
automobile type,
financial independence,
or type of job,
and even our circle of friends.
All these things have one commonalty,
all are just temporary.
Just as Love is not Love until you give it away,
success will be determined by treatment of our fellow man,
(Not merely tolerating, but loving)
and whether or not your decision was for Christ.
(You will either accept ---- or reject).
You cannot know Christ, and not be a success,
regardless of your station in life.
They say opposites attract
but love lies in the middle of our
similarities.
Finally realizing a commonalty
in these life long processions
of division and simple equations
we’ve been over thinking
We can simplify things
remove labels, erase boxes,
step over imaginary lines,
reprimand group thinking
and apply words
to what seems so elusive
something resembling
newspaper clippings
glued together as a ransom note
without return criteria
participated in a give and take
type of tug of war
letting go and holding on
always on the outside
of differences
inside so insignificant
one tiny grain of gravity
that causes us to keep circling
orbiting, drawing forever inward
to a foretold
I told you so
a place where love abounds
where no one is right
and no one is wrong
just somewhere safe
secured in each other's arms.
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