Two Voices
Hateful words flying through the air
Like missiles and poisonous gas
They don't listen
Being so intent on trying to come up with
The next argument to prove how "woke" they are.
And let the people say.....I'm tired of this crap!!!
Anger's voice is too loud to talk over
We need a peacemaker like Ghandi, like Martin Luther King, like Jesus
The Bible says: Make no friendship with an angry man
Why?
Because an angry man is a walled city that can't be scaled
Bang your head on his wall, he won't hear you
He only hears the screams of his anger
Anger, non-righteous, is a demon that is only afraid of love
Righteous anger is good but even that must be laid aside
Before the sun goes down.
There comes a time
When weapons need to be laid down
And replaced by handshakes and hugs
And let the people say...I'm tired of war!
You can't rewrite history
You can only write the next chapter of the story
Let the poets and the lovers and the godly write that chapter
Take the thousand dollar pens out of the hands of the one per centers
It is they who wrote the previous chapters of hate and war
And made the innocent masses pay for their crimes.
And let the people say....Ain't that the truth!!!!
We know what's going on here,
We who have ears to hear
And eyes to see
We know who it is that loves war and hates peace
We know who it is that conquers by division
We know what drives men to madness
And children to nightmares
We know.........................
And we know that the ancient law of "eye for an eye"
Only led to a world full of blind men
"Tooth for a tooth" led to teethless people made even more angry
By their inability to gnash their teeth
The only people who will attain peace in this world
Are those, like Chief Joseph, who say "I will fight no more again forever."
For fighting leads to fighting and killing of the body
Leads to killing of the soul.
And let the people say...... Somebody done growed a brain up in here!!!
All blood is red (unless you're a Martian)
And all men bleed the same color
Why?
Because we are of one race, one species, one family
Sly Stone said it well in "Family Affair" when he sang....
"One child grows up to be somebody that just loves to learn
And another child grows up to be somebody you'd just love to burn
Mom loves the both of them. You see it's in the blood.........
What am I saying?
We are all one family, one blood
But depending on whose voice you listen to and follow.....
You will either be a good or evil member of that family
You will love your fellow man or burn in the fire of your own anger
It's your choice to make
Hate begets hate, love begets love
The Creator will still love you
But He probably won't like you very much.
Why?
Because you don't listen to the voice of Reason
But are swayed by the voice of Vengeance
There are only two voices in this world
One wants you to live in peace and love as you were made to love
And the other one knows...................
His time is short.
And let the people say.....Amen and Amen!
(now give me a High Five
and a hug around the neck, Somebody!)
©by Voo Shining Stone
Sept 29, 2020
8:34 p.m.
