sun rays and trees with fog in Rhodes Estate

 

 

 

 

Dark Glass

Ken Pullen  –  copyright 2011
Scripture appears in Italics from the King James
Version

It wasn’t an apple
nor apricot
no fruit known to man

If ye be willing
and obedient,
ye shall eat the good of the land:
But if ye refuse
and rebel,
ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Every vain grappling
evidence
indicting
those on a quest
expending so much errant energy
always heading in the wrong direction
their compass in constant malfunction
at every junction they approach
craggy puddle strewn paths
the mud rising higher and higher upon them
as they journey to nowhere
to gain nothing
fatigued
so weary
why?

Zion shall be redeemed
with judgment,
and her converts with righteousness.
And the destruction
of the transgressors
and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the
Lord
shall be consumed.

Insistence they must know
must attach
must make it something they
can sink their teeth into
rather than…

Just believe.

Because if we open our eyes
we can see
if
we open our ears
we can hear

And the loftiness of man
shall be bowed down,
and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low:
and the Lord alone shall be exalted
in that day.

It was
The Tree of Life
unknown to any man or woman
save for Adam and his wife Eve
the knowledge to all others
is not theirs to perceive
to taste of its fruit
unlike anything known to man
save Adam
his wife Eve
will only be imbibed by those
taking leave
of this earthly realm
to reside with the Father
in heaven’s orchard

O, the foolishness of man!

And I will give children
to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them.
And the people shall be oppressed,
every one by another,
and every one by his neighbor:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the
ancient,
and the base against the honourable.

Refusing to believe
faith in their failing selves
faith in sinful men
faith in their machines
technology
faith in the darkness in which they walk
no faith in God the Creator
who without His will
these men would turn instantly to dust
all they think they know
nothing but distracting must
man making himself a god
believing they can know
must know, will know!

Woe unto them
that
call evil good,
and good evil;
that put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for the bitter!

Such malady not exclusive
not elusive
from believer as well as unbelieving
this quest for the grail
derails
many along this course of life
forsaking faith
failure of trust
belief turning to rust
faith to dust
following vanities
banalities
profanities
this world’s utter insanities
under the guise of truth
they plummet headlong
clinging to a lie
their light turned dark
a syncopated cold heart and  dead spirit
in their desire to unfurl, find, some great answer
causing a cancer
to spread within the soul

Say ye
to the righteous,
that is shall be well with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.

We are all sinners
going about our day
in our own way
perhaps proclaiming
yet
shaming
ourselves
in failure of worship
to the One True Living God
we err
thinking belief
brings complete relief
if this be so then why does
our Lord ask
if upon His return
a righteous man can be found?
as we allow this world’s winds
to whip
cause us to slip
wandering from the path
following the alluring words of man
the glimmer and glint of this world
for in that day…

even many of those professing
will be stressing
as they have turned idle
to idols here
refusing to step closer
to God get near

And the idols He shall utterly abolish.
And they shall go into the holes
of the rocks,
and into the caves of the earth,
for fear of the Lord,
and for
the glory of His majesty,
when He ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
And in that day
a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold,
which they made each one
for himself to worship,
to the moles
and to the bats;
Cease ye from man,
whose breath is in his nostrils:
for wherein is he to be accounted of?

This world already lives in the holes
and openings of rocks
the caves
as to this world they are a slave
the walking dead
spiritually misled
wearing their Ray-Ban’s
in the utter darkness
both professed believer
and unbeliever
in these last days
refusing to be a receiver
of The Truth
The Way
The Light
to seek
and walk upon the narrow path
of right
little concern or awareness
of living to be pleasing in God’s sight

Woe unto them
that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent
in their own sight!
Which justify the wicked for reward,
and take away the righteousness
of the righteous from him!
Therefore
as the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the flame consumeth the chaff,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom
shall go up as dust:
because
they have cast away the law of the Lord of
hosts,
and despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.