Short Advantaged Poems

Many complained Joe micromanaged

Some even called him “disadvantaged”

     The devil in the details

     Is the truth that tips the scales

Revealing who is less advantaged


Based on Albert Einstein’s quote –
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”


Written April 15, 2015, for John Freeman's Einstein Quotes Contest.
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‘I leave am for God’
Is the poor man's prayer 
When he submits to higher realms
Transferring judgement to higher forces 
The answer to that prayer is often terrifying 

When you take another for granted 
Trampling on another because you are advantaged
Usurping communal wealth because you are in charge
Bleeding the flock you are supposed to pastor 
It is the poor man that bears the brunt 

Don't fall a victim...

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Seeds of the Savior's garden
Advantaged by the early rain
Bud and bloom in grace and pardon
Bearing fruit that love sustain
Acres to be reaped, hands like buzzing bees
Teachers making the reapers bold
Holiness of word performed is holiness of soul

Send them forth to sow and garner
Christ the vine master empowers all
Heaven's storehouse becomes the richer
Omitting judgment, helping those that fall
O Lord, our God, we surrender all to you
Lead us to green pastures, your vessels true...

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I've never tasted life, as the elite,
Nor been advantaged with copiousness;

But I've reveled in success,
And likewise, endured the anguish,
And frustration of defeat;

But still,
I won't impugn, those, having thoughts
That I've accumulated much;
"For little, is much, when God is in it."

For as,
God has readied each day,
He has situated me, with farish health,
To continue plowing on;

Perhaps this does infer,
That just being, places me among them.
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