{"id":547,"date":"2012-03-09T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/two-poems\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:53:37","slug":"two-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/two-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

A CHILDLIKE FAITH<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Days composed of time, and I’m<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Walking down a corridor of more<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Than I could ever know and so,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
I will trust the One who leads me.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I am blind, and yet I see that to be,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Is more important than to do, and yet so few,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Dare to risk their place in line to find,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That life is more than being secure.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Somewhere inside resides<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
A willingness to surrender and remember<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Why we are here, what we must do, and Who<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
We are following, and that He is able.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Why then do we run and hide, and decide,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That we can run our lives best, and never rest,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Always trying to be what we always were, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Trying to obtain what we already have.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
We came to God on our knees, and now we plead,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That we would return there, in humble prayer,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
In faith we first came, and in faith we remain,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Seeing the world through different eyes.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Fill us to overflowing, that men may see that we,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Have a power not our own, a love from above,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That will stop at nothing to light the night,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
And spread the word around.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
That man does not have to die, does not have to try,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
To do great things, and bridge the hole in his soul,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
For he cannot, and would not, and should not, and won’t<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Until he becomes a child once again.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A child playing in the sand does not demand,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That he find cement, and make concrete, and complete,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
A great big house, for all to see what he can be,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
He is content that he is alive, and very much alive he is! <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
We are called Children of God, it is quite odd,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
That we run around trying to be big, doing great deeds,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
When, after all, God calls us to be small,<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
And trust him to honor our life of faith, and He will.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

RF<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
THE GAMBLE<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
You ask me to play a strange game, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
A game of chance, a game involving years of life <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
My life. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
And you ask me to place every part of my life on one number <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Like gambling almost <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
And then you spin the wheel. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
If I win, I win everything, and you guarantee that I will win. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
You promise.  You say that you know. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
But I don’t know; I must trust you. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Now I’m just not quite sure I like these odds. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
What if I lose?  I lose it all.  Everything. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
So I spread it out a bit. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I stake my life, invest it if you will, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
On other numbers, numbers that I like. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Numbers that have long been favorites. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Increase the odds.  Sure I may not win big. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
But I won’t lose as big either, or as much, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Will I?  <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Of course I will leave a part of my life <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
On the number you recommend <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Because you might be right after all. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Who do you think I am, anyway? <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Who would be crazy enough to bet it all, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
On the basis of the advice of someone I’ve never even seen.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
RF<\/span><\/div>\n

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A CHILDLIKE FAITH Days composed of time, and I’m Walking down a corridor of more Than I could ever know and so, I will trust the One who leads me. I am blind, and yet I see that to be, Is more important than to do, and yet so few, Dare to risk their place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}