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 further into sleep

We call it ‘devotion’.

We sit bored and spectate, listening to ‘talks’.

We are pacified.

Our minds too energized and numbed by BBC and Sky.

We applaud the platitudes of the entertaining spectacles.

We file out in a daze...

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 God.

Where is the Fountain

The Fountain of Life

That flows so beautifully, incessant and free?

Where is He?

Someone, please shake me up!

We 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

(Written as a prayer in 2018 before the Current Awakening!)

by

elizabeth o. david