Marylin Maduka
THE JUDGEMENT - Marylin Maduka
How did we get here?
To this dark, ugly place; where light hides its face
How did we walk, with eyes wide shut?
Into this trap, this den of sin, our free will’s prison
And how can we still bask
In the deadly embrace of a laden slumber,
That kills us with stealth, becomes our sleep of death?
Can we not see the signs everywhere?
Collapse in family and state, crisis that won’t abate
Aberrations in our choice of mate, global waves of unchained
hate
Bloodshed and unholy wars, Incurable diseases and gaping sores
Nations amass weapons of mass-destruction and armies
Nature supports with earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis
Our basest passions we unbridle, as materialism becomes our
idol
Through fashion and folly, we desecrate even that which should
be Holy
In wave upon wave, the intolerable becomes acceptable
The unimaginable becomes desirable, the blessed become
abominable!
Oh! May we rise from this bad dream of a self-made reality
Consumed by horror, and if need be, liberating sorrow
In new consciousness, desperately malcontent, genuinely
penitent
Seizing courage at last to do His Will, in true humility may
we kneel
That we may yet breathe the air of a new dawn
And be numbered amongst His flock on resurrection morn…
Oh Lord! Though undeserved, yet still, we pray Thee;
As Thy Holy Power overflows, please have mercy on our souls!
Amen.
Marylin Maduka
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