Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
Building
The greatest things of life don’t suddenly “appear.” Most of them you must build, through your blood, sweat and tears. There’s no place for short cuts, or just getting by, Diligent endurance you will need to apply. In building a marriage or a newfound career, Your business, finances, or a brand new frontier, Building…
Destruction
What it takes a lifetime to build Can be destroyed overnight. A marriage and kids torn apart A business firebombed at night. “Tear it down, this vile thing!” (You’ve joined the tide of evil). “Grab your torch! Burn it down!” (You’re running with the devil). Any fool can destroy. There is no virtue…
The New World Order???
This?! The new world order? On ashes that smolder? Portland? This is the way? This destruction? Okay?
Sadness
Sadness stops you in the way. Is this what has to be? Sadness stuns you. Clouds turn gray. A fool’s paradise, we? Sadness loves to sing the blues. Soft notes, tears, an interlude. Is this the road that we did choose? Quiet, and disquietude.
Be Careful What You Ask For
“Be careful what you ask for,” So said mother to her son. “But mom, I know what I need!” (Mom hoped he’d want wisdom). But wisdom did not drive him, Desires and passions instead. He married “beauty” and folly, Now, his misery widespread. A nation follows ideas. Ideology, the mainspring. When ideas have…
Thirst
She was ever thirsty, came daily to this well, Her bucket lowered down, a darkness of her hell. And each day she believed, “At last my thirst be quenched.” Sure this water splashing, her heart should now be drenched! Her thirst was much deeper, for deeper connection, To know and to be known, with…