Most Controversial Ever

 

Not Wendell McClean

Or Eric Sealy,

Some may say Caswell Franklyn

Of more recency.

 

Maybe some world figure

Like Donald Trump

Or someone long ago interred

Or in a cemetery dumped.

 

Pardon the word ‘dumped’

But some have been treated thus;

Dumped in an unknown hole

Without any fuss.

 

Controversial is seen

As a very negative thing,

In terms of the political playing field

It is whichever wing.

 

The hard-fought for freedoms

Versus the hierarchy,

In the not too distant past,

Slaves versus the plantocracy.

 

 

 

A very assertive slave

Was seen as controversial by most

And by Massa in particular

As an adversarial force.

 

So that controversial

Means adversarial for some
And often it is the controversial ones

For which the authority guns.

 

 

Take for example, Caswell,

Who is clearly left-wing,

Refusing to conform to authority

And doing his own thing.

 

Opposing the Government

And vexing many people

Especially those of a partisan spirit

And BLP gullible.

 

A Government that fixes

What it unfixed

In a way to convince the people

It was never fixed.

 

That behaves as though

There was none before them

Except of course, to blame predecessors

For the current problem.

 

The unions swallowed up

With the exception of only one

And all of Mia’s blinded adherents

Wishing that too were gone.

 

 

So that to date any oppose

Is seen as controversial

And in the case of Caswell Franklyn,

He is also adversarial.

 

To be avoided like a plague

That will destroy this country, Bim,

And consign it, as some believe,

To the IMF stuff bin.

 

In the absence of controversy

People see only one way

And become like puppets on a string,

Dumb as dried hay.

 

However, Caswell is not

The most controversial person ever,

No, that distinction, I dare say,

I reserve for another.

 

He was controversial

Before he spoke a word,

I know to yourself you are shouting,

“That is most absurd!”

 

 

And it would have been

Were it not a fact

That the very promise his Father gave

A certain king tried to retract.

 

And he came to give to man

God’s utmost for man;

Namely, that of reconciliation

In His redemptive plan.

 

You see, my friend,

Controversy can be good or bad,

The most controversial person ever

Has made me glad.

 

He came to his own

And his own received him not,

I thank Almighty God today

I am not in that lot.

 

It was not without reluctance

But mine he finally overcame

And today I am a born-again believer

In Jesus’ name.

 

It is not Caswell Franklyn;

That designation must go to another,

It is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour,

The most controversial ever.

 

 

What the authority demanded

Jesus opposed

For their way was the wrong way

Not right, as they proposed.

 

Finally, they exchanged him

For their worst enemy,

Caesar, of all people,

What ignominy!

 

“We have no king but Caesar”

Was their cry

And with that pleaded with Pilate

That Jesus must die.

 

If it is controversial

To fight for the good of others,

Then let us emulate Jesus

And be his follower.

 

Stewart Russell © September 30, 2023