AWAKE! (a poem)

We are a people fast asleep…

Will someone please shake us up!

We gather like sheep huddled together for warmth

From a cold and lifeless existence.

We stand in slumber singing lullabies that lull us to sleep

Again; we call it ‘worship’.

We sit and spectate, listening to ‘sermons’.

They pacify our spirits and energize our minds

Numbed by BBC and Sky.

We applaud the platitudes of the entertaining spectacles

Staged for us; we call it ‘church’.

We file out in a daze and wait for it to happen

All over again.

Then we wring our hands and pray prayers

That are overstretched and underbaked;

Wondering why it goes nowhere…

Please someone get me off this tedious merry-go-round!

But,

There is Life somewhere…

Where did we miss Him?

How did we stray from the River that flows

Oh, so beautifully, incessant and Free?

Where is He?

Someone, please shake me up!

I need to wake up!

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. - Arnold J. Toynbee

They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him... Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” John 20:13,15

Nov. 2018

written by

elizabeth 'tayo david