"Parallel Parking"

“Parallel Parking”

cji

7/27/14

(Prelude:

Given how eager to lead

thus having others follow

forgotten about the yoke

allowing for neither option

no longer to remember

parallel parking a trap

each in the driving test

either pulling behind

or pushing on ahead

not using the blinker

and failing the test!)

(1)

Each Sabbath Day begun

kneeling and in prayer

acknowledging the LORD

imploring our gratefulness

asking for advice and aid

seeking not to be alone

then rising into the world

forgetting again the yoke

seeking to lead or follow!

(2)

So many marriage begun

equally yoked at alters

except when rising done

having made vows to obey

making then one to follow

and striving to be leading

no longer reverent found

back into the worldly mode

vacant promises to stray!

(3)

Parallel parking to learn

begun as children young

treated unequally by most

sharing no yoke known

either to seek to lead

or left as others to follow

pulling ahead to park

or hiding behind to stay!

(4)

As in mortal marriages

entwined only in time

‘till death do ye part’

thus already in divorce

yoke already broken

bickering started

infidelity envisioned

worldly images viewed

devaluing one’s spirit

taking away the feeling

between truth and lies!

(5)

Quietly trying to deny

ever failing this test

always using the blinker

remembering the yoke

prayers said earlier

again thankful at night

on bended knees to be

tears of gratefulness

asking another chance

to awaken tomorrow!

(6)

Again to communicate

sometimes with signals

most times with words

vacantly a lost thought

of where we’ve come

why we are here today

someday where to go

predicated on passing

this mortal probation!

(7)

Marriage is supposed eternal

Scriptures repeatedly saying

Prophets of old and this day

purposes of Temples built

until given to make changes

destroying the reasons

stolen and abused then

while again restored today

rejecting truth for lies

most fail to seek the why

so much has been lost

a failure to communicate

forgetting signals given

family/marriage eternal!

(Epilogue:

Parallel parking a reason

forgetfulness to embrace

prayers said in reverence

calling upon the LORD

imploring and pleading

some to go forth obeying

honoring the Sabbath Day

others quickly turning away

no longer equally yoked

again having failed the test!)

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