Consternation flourishing through stress.
A swing to suasion that is silky and helpless.
Without notification, you slip away pointless.
Rather, there was a burst of uncanny swiftness.
The latest loop is slighter than season darkness.
Effects faint, yet long, the harm that is endless.
As you hear the wail, you quit, being speechless.
Only I could understand paradoxical madness.
There is never a clear quotation near vainness.
Written: October 25, 2022
ACROSTIC POEM: FAITH
F: Forgiven to be forgiving
A: Anyone, everyone, especially family and neighbors, who wounded you and me
I: In the LORD’S Prayer, He ended with a final layer, truly getting by giving … forgiveness
T: The Civil War in the USA shows how healing starts, suasion of minds and hearts
H: History is strewn with nations whose notions of revenge trump love and God!
©Anil Deo 2017
Fathers-in-spirit do not teach your congregations
Suicide, massacre, fallacy, bombs, and guns
But facts, piety, love, and peaceful co-existence.
Fathers-in-flesh do not teach your young ones
Neglect, war, begging, rum, and abortions
But care, peace, jobs, juice, and obedience.
Fathers-in-power do not inflate elections
Accumulate billions, dictate the pace, and obliterate our positions
But listen, agree, and act to what is being said by the Audience
Father-in-heaven allow our pleas to act in turns
For you are a witness to these burns
As we shall use these as lessons and evidence.