Irresponsibility
Guilt is [Also]
Unwarranted Vanity.
Be More Humble
Than Guilt.
-Gray Squirrel
03-03-2025
I
Capitalists sell prayers and hope
From China, PRC, to you and me
In images and words: forward these
To all your contacts - such positivity
Yet we hear, embedded spyware
Comes with readymade China prayer
To Jesus or more often, "the Universe"
II
LORD, I owe my all to thee
My two children from a first marriage
And my current, S. African family
Blended families have challenges
Yet, You allow us all to share (Time)
- often at the last minute, LOL
As some youth seem to upset a schedule
To see they still have "love & first place" -
Jesus, help our youth, parents, guardians
Without thy Hand, we will fail more
In duty, stewarship, responsibility
To people, planet, parents-to-be
Bless this Day, this year; save us, purify us for GLORY ( amen)
One pastor spoke against "fwd-ing" messages
From WhatsApp, without knowing the source
In prayer, the character of the intercessor
Is as important as Trinity, God, subject of PRAYER
I'm in the hospital because of what happened on the 4th of July.
I was very irresponsible with fireworks and I'm lucky I didn't die.
When I lit a bottlerocket, it flew up my nose.
But that wasn't as bad as losing all of my fingers and toes.
I held five M-80s in each hand and put five on both of my feet.
When they exploded, I thought God was somebody who I'd meet.
I didn't argue when my best friend decided to rush me to the ER.
He's threatening to sue because my blood ruined the interior of his car.
When I got to the hospital, the doctors and nurses laughed
They said they couldn't believe that a man could be so daft.
Now I'm lying in a hospital bed and I have no toes, fingers or thumbs.
If you ever use fireworks, don't do what I did because it was very dumb.
(This is a fictional poem but being irresponsible with fireworks really is dangerous.)
Unsayable Irresponsibility
Inside the festive bar, drinks free flowed
To swaying music, hips and lost inhibitions.
Beer and spirits rivered down the mountain,
Splitting carefree trees in need of shaking,
With queue of law hanging on their branches,
Cues, of the wrath of drinking and driving.
Some heed, most drive to someone's goat.
11/23/17
UNSAYABLE - Poetry Contest