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rusHour

“The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of        
stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that        
God has given us.—”Larry Burkett
       
     
it must be for the greater good    
that some above the crowds have stood,    
while others on the edge of life repine;    
          the stewardship of every man    
          must be to serve a nobler plan    
          than pick his teeth and phartz above cloud nine.    
     
          the lawyer in sartorial guise    
          must not the ass of compromise    
          bestow with ardent kisses of grandeur;    
                    the doctor with his instrument    
                    must not be so self-confident    
                    in siphoning off breadcrumbs from the poor.  
     
                    the preacher’s holier-than-thou pose    
                    must look not down its scornful nose    
                    at guileless sinners who, in penitence,    
                              come to the Cross with widow’s mite    
                              that they may peace find in the Light,    
                              who, for life’s bitterness, seek recompense.    
     
                              the judge upon his dreadful throne,    
                              whose vext injustice grief has known,    
                              must one day bow before a greater pow’r:    
                                        God rules in the affairs of men,    
                                        who think they own the oxygen    
                                        that makes their dust a dot in time’s rush hour.    
     
                                                  © Copyright 2024 September 25    
                                                            by Clyve A. Bowen♫
Written by cabcool
Published | Edited 26th Sep 2024
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