POEM OF THE YEAR

 

High Is Where We Will Rise

 

High is where we will rise

Above the prejudice

Above the legislative

Decisions to cause us

   Derision in our soul

To make our love grow cold

Because of their hatred

Their blatant blasphemy 

Of “our’ God.

 

High is where we will rise

Above their enmity

The creative enemies’

   Plot to make us a blot

Erased from the face 

Of this country’s history

To make Christianity

A thing of the past

 

“No, It didn’t last”

Because “we” destroyed it

“We” deported it into oblivion

Never to raise again

Never to let it win

Over debauchery, carnality

“Immorality, Let It Reign!”

   Spread the Pain

Of a coldhearted, lifeless,

Mindless Republic

 

Yet in spite of this

We will rise High above 

the skyline of wickedness

Our ticket is 

Christ

And

His sacrificed life

On the cross so some of us

Here in the states will not be lost

When the judgement for ours 

Sins as a nation

Lead us to deprivation and desolation

Because we turned our back

On the only “God” who could 

Save us

 

For the elect sake

Delay us Lord from

Annihilation

Like Esther let us pled

For our preservation

As a 

 people 

Before a godless king.

Let us be willing

To give up everything

We have for the cause of Christ

Even our very lives 

If it means it.

 

So the next generation

Can see “It”

With a clear conscience

Receive “It”

  

In His hand is a sword 

Called the Word of God

Let them speak it

So some can believe it and 

Their lives be spared

From the fear and dread

Of what is coming

  

And we can rise to new heights

High above we will rise

Above the mediocrity

The callous hearts and 

Aristocracy

The Cheaters,

The Liers

The con artist in “Leadership”

Hatred among the races

 

We will rise and live out our Creed

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, 

that all men are created equal”

And see Martin Luther King Jr’s

Dream come to pass at last

When Christ returns again

We will rise High above it all.

 

Carolyn Booker 12/25/2016