Just Musing

We have our opinions

Too much Television, violence

In the movies, too much sex -

debauchery in day-to-day soap operas.

The police want more surveillance 

More boots on the streets

The educationists want more millions

For schools. The church want

More Christ pumped into the hearts.

Some say in another hundred years

If we are still here, genetically

Modified criminals would make

Our world inhabitable

Isaiah told them in Israel

They wouldn’t believe him till

They sang the Lord’s song in Babylon

Slaves for seventy years

Ezra and his fifty thousand took

Their treacherous journey back home

The excitement of freedom was

Hysteric, tears and laughter

Joy and zeal laid the temple stones

A foundation for the worship

Of the One True God, but soon

Everyman went his way, to build,

To plant his own, to make a living

and loose life; then they left the God

Who delivered from Babylon

To care for His house, bleak and lonely

The shame of neglect, a foundation

In the sight of all, a testimony

Of failed zeal and compound greed

Then came Haggai with the voice

Of reason, the will of God.

Let Haggai arise today I pray

I have seen too often the mercy

Of God, when humans stood and wept

In lonely places, when sky is bleak

And tears drop desolately

I have seen the smile of God 

In man’s despondent state often

To know how special humans are!

He seeks you still

His anger endures for the night

But favour breaks forth with dawn

Only in Him is life that lights up

Only He is love that builds up.

Peter Adegbie