If I heard a command
To stop immediately
I would expect the speaker to be
Someone of authority?
For example: a policeman
Or military personnel,
A school principal or teacher
Or some warning bell.
It’s an urgent command
Implying serious fallout
And this, if the recipient persists,
Would be without doubt.
Who would dare disobey
Someone with a gun
Unless he was fast enough
A bullet to outrun?
So, stop immediately
Speaks to authority
And that authoritative command
Implies great urgency.
I saw a popular evangelist
Blow COVID-19 away
Yet this pandemic is still with us
Up to this very day.
His was a stop immediately
That did not materialize
Since COVID is still with us
And not even in disguise.
Even with children
“Stop” is losing its weight,
Far less the "immediately",
They’d rather suffer fate.
One PM to another PM
Regarding a war declaration,
“Stop immediately!” that PM said,
But without recognition.
It was like Jezebel’s prophets
When they prayed to Baal
But Baal did not hear them
So, it was to no avail.
The “stop immediately”
Must from a greater power come
Or else it will be meaningless
And nothing will be done.
Immediacy and authority
Tend to go hand in hand,
Greatest power is proportionate to
Quickest heed to command.
One very popular pastor
And also, another well-known one,
Combined their double anointing
To quell the LGBTQ storm.
Another “stop immediately”
That did not make a difference,
The LGBTQ’s effort has not lessened
And definitely not their intent.
So, a “stop immediately”,
Must be from high up on the list
Of power brokers in the world
To pull off a “cease and desist”.
Do note my cherished reader
I have not mentioned any names
So, read this poem as it was written
And none of us will be blamed.
Stewart Russell © July 31, 2023
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