self-seeking control

self-seeking people take control to control
those who believe in you with desire to serve
you and your creation, a precise contrast
to your letting go all management as Jesus

demonstrated years ago with his servant

services to his people!
but the controllers choke and strangle
me to death even when i let go all my control

the new Sanhedrin, here, also control

my letting go of all control so my dying, brutal
may prolong and my sleep flee not though i sleep
not in my bed, and my tears flow not

though my crying day and night cease not

curtailing all my creativity that freely flow
from the spring you set in in my first sleep
making me now sit beside the frozen Peace River

motionless with many unanswered questions

and doubtful support to increase inspirations
knowing not whether to journey into Golgotha
or that path to quit, walk away avoiding agony         `

 Note: Photograph credit to Mario Flores

schooling in diplomacy

i have often wondered why Jesus was not schooled

in diplomacy, nor his predecessors took that path
and whom you call to put your word in their mouth
never have the opportunity in art of tact to be drilled!

your providence, i know, have not failed to fill

in every brain the basic wisdom, the common sense
but will not your word make an easy and a smooth sail
if wrapped up well in that skilful human noose!

hence every prophet of yours walks into that Golgotha

bleeding and bleeding to death, an award you bestowed
on Jesus, that innocent man from the ancient Nazareth
who not only spoke your simple word but also lived!

 

a morning prayer

my mind is muddled as i turn

to you for a cuddle this morn
a mounting resistance to my ministry
among those you, to me, have entrusted

this opposition slows me down

that greater mission you implanted
in my heart prompting my praying
for clarity of vision and patience

i also pray for courage to speak

with control of tongue at all times
and to yield to the best in me,
enabling the excellent in others

i also pray for you to assist me

with angels that all drop defences
and begin to listen, to build the rule
of love in hearts of humans!