Legalizing Madness

Why do we legalize madness?

Why do we refuse to treat it?

Why do we make the abnormal, normal

Just to support a habit?

Why do we take our standard

From what the animals do

And argue if it’s normal for the animals

It must be normal for us too?

After all, we are higher animals

And should do as they do,

All are entitled to the basest things

Yes, even if it’s a depraved view.

Take for example the argument:

What animals do is natural

And what is natural is normal

It logically follows, therefore, normal must be moral.

So that since this is a truism

Why then should it not be legal?

If it is natural for the animals

Then it should be moral for all people.

Talking about a quantum leap

Like as in mechanics and physics!

If that is not a leap into space

Then tell me, “What is it?”

So now you see just where we are

Why madness must be legalized!

If this is intellectual thinking

Why should you or I be surprised?

There is a special logic for fools

And there is one for mad people too,

So that sooner or later and perhaps sooner,

There will be one for any view.

The good Lord created two genders

It was a fairly uncomplicated world,

Now there are over one hundred

Doesn’t anyone think that is absurd?

Following is a test I am giving you

You can do it with your iPhone,

Ask “Siri” how many genders there are

And you’ll see that this madness is full-blown.

Gender is different from when I was young

At present, I am sixty-six years old,

It is now defined as how you feel inside

At least, that is what I’ve been recently told.

So straight up you see the dissonance

I can feel different from what I am,

And if I cannot be entitled to what I feel

Well, I would be better off damned.

There is even a gender for the genderless

Like the “I don’t want to be any gender",

Then there is one for let me change when I please

That one we will call transgender.

The stable door has been opened

And the horse has unapologetically bolted,

The floodgates have released their eager waters

And only a relative few have noted.

If a poll were to be taken tomorrow

I wonder what the outcome would be,

Somehow I feel we would legalize the madness

Because most of us are too blind to see.

There is a group I especially fear

It is those of the apathetic persuasion,

They could not care one way or another

It is no obstacle to their aspirations.

But then there are those that sympathize

Why can’t a person become what he feels?

Happiness is, after all, life’s objective

That’s one thing we won’t let someone steal.

So the verdict goes to the abnormal

Call it the new normal if you please,

I like to be cheeky and I tease a lot

But please be advised, this poem is not a tease.

Legalizing this madness is where we are headed

Open your eyes and see,

Or else you’ll regret the day you were born

And the two genders that caused you to be.

A person’s orientation can be anything

For we all live in a fallen world,

In heaven, Lucifer attempted to overthrow God

And at the time, he didn’t think that was absurd.

Stewart Russell © September 2019

Can You Dig It?

If I send you for the left shoe

And you bring the left shoe,

Wouldn’t that be the right shoe?

But if I send you for the left shoe

And you bring the right shoe

Then that would be the wrong shoe.

You see the wrong shoe is the right shoe

And the right shoe is the wrong shoe,

A sure case of when wrong is right.

It is like driving in Barbados:

To drive on the left is to be right

There is a possible case of being left dead

If you are on the right.

Why do people sit on a collapsible chair?

Isn’t that reason enough not to sit on it?

Funny enough they are never marked.

If the house burns down

You may have saved some stuff

But if it burns up nothing might be saved.

  

It is said that…

The bottom line is that if you work hard

You would likely reach the top.

However, if you don’t

Your top will be someone’s bottom.

If I ask you if the answer is “no” and you say “yes”

Then your “no” is the same as “yes”,

It means for once I can trust your word.

To dig a hole one starts from the top

But to get out of it he starts from the bottom.

If there is no top there is no bottom.

He told the truth when he said he lied

But he lied when he said he told the truth.

Don’t you worry; I have the proof.

People living near a cemetery

 Are never buried therein

But then again neither are those dying elsewhere.

He was standing at the front of the church

But the evidence was inadmissible.

As to whether he was inside or outside

Either of the two was probable.

  

If one is coming back now

It would have to be now he is coming back.

So chances are, he will arrive later.

  

If nowhere is no place

Then how is it possible to get there?

And more particularly to get there by doing nothing.

There’s one thing I cannot do when I am sleeping.

That is to wake up.

Yet, that is the very thing I am expected to do.

  

I am especially concerned

When I am not concerned

Since not to be concerned

Gives me a very good reason to be concerned.

Is it possible to do the impossible

When the impossible is not possible?

Yes, only if the impossible is possible

Then God can.

If you get something done

Then it is clear to me you haven’t done it

Since if somebody did it for you

You could not have done it too.

  

The dead know nothing and we don’t.

If that is true

Then the dead knows something that we don’t.

If the dead knows something that we don’t

Then to know what the dead knows that we don’t

We must die.

Is it worth it?

Knowing nothing, I mean.

If a problem is a problem before it is solved

What is it after it is solved?

No problem.

If a soldier steps off on the wrong foot

And that is the right foot

Then quite obviously

His left foot would be his right foot.

If his left foot and his right foot

Are one and the same,

Then it logically follows

That he must be a one-foot soldier.

  

The child was punished for being wrong

Yet he was the right child all along.

It was discovered after he was pointed out

That he was, in fact, the right child.

What is the opposite of an “open-hole”?

I guess you would say a closed-hole.

But could that be correct?

How could it be a hole if it is closed?

I will finish at this point

And I trust you see the point

For if in fact you haven’t seen the point

Then I would not have made a point.

Stewart Russell © May 2019

Four Journalistic Accounts

Four men with pens and parchment

Set out to do the Master’s bid,

Moved by the Holy Spirit

Exactly as they were told they did.

Out of this came four pictures

Though of cameras, they had none,

In the Bible, we have the evidence

Of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Two were primary reporters

Of what they had witnessed and seen,

Two were not far from the action

And wrote the account as streamed.

Matthew and John were disciples

And had walked beside the Christ,

They received his teachings firsthand

Without conditions or price.

Mark and Luke were followers

And most likely knew Christ’s disciples

But they all had the Spirit’s guidance

And in such a recording, there is no rival.

Way back in the Old Testament

The accounts were given their themes,

Two prophets had declared them

Long before Christ came on the scene.

These were Isaiah and Zechariah

And they, led by the Spirit of God,

Penned these themes in their books

And preached them to one and all.

They were not completely au fait

With all that these themes had meant

But simply declared the word

As the messengers that God had sent.

In Zechariah chapter 6 verse 9

There we read, “Behold the man”,

This was pertaining to Christ’s advents

And his work re the redemption plan.

  

The next declaration comes from Isaiah

As recorded in Isaiah 42 verse 1,

“Behold my servant” is the theme

700 years before Christ was born.

Zechariah is back: chapter 9 verse 9

“Behold your King,” he declares,

“Riding upon a colt the foal of an ass,”

Prophetic of that first Palm Sunday.

The 4th is recorded in Isaiah 40 verse 9

And that theme is, “Behold your God,”

A clear indication of the deity of Christ

And this to all would be spread abroad.

And so with eyes as roving cameras

And ears completely tuned to the Spirit

These four wrote as the Spirit led

Ever conscious of their God-given remit.

Behold Your King

Matthew, though the first as presented,

Is really the second journal penned,

A study of this account would reveal

“Jesus the King,” as Zechariah declared then.

As a king, his genealogy was presented

Making him an heir to David’s throne,

Starting at the first verse of Matthew

By verse 16 this is clearly shown.

In Matthew 5 he came to fulfil the law

Regarding its spirit and not its letter,

The liberty to do what is righteous

And not by its rule to be fettered.

Murder was anger for a brother

Adultery was committed in the heart,

Swearing of an oath was forbidden

And to love our enemy we should start.

As a King, he was greater than Moses

And over the Sabbath he was Lord,

He showed his authority over demons

As demonstrated in the Word.

He was much wiser than Solomon

And far greater than Jonah,

At birth and death, he was called a king

And showed his authority over nature.

Behold My Servant

Matthew to Mark was a quantum leap

From king down to “Jesus the Servant”,

No genealogy was required in this case

But key persons were used as a reference.

First a testimonial from John the Baptist

Re: coming after but preferred before

And God Himself was a reference,

Tell me, who could ask for more?

The Holy Spirit testified of him

This occurred at the baptism of John

And Jesus himself said he came to minister

As a reference, he must be accepted as one.

In one encounter with a blind man

He requested of him what to do,

No doubt he knew what the man required

But his was a servant’s point of view.

When questioned regarding the end

He indicated that was in the Father’s hand

He knew quite well a servant’s place

And stuck to the Master’s plan.

Behold The Man

 

He carried a two-fold nature

Not two natures as some may suggest,

Luke presented him as “Jesus the Man”

And as a man, he passed the test.

In Luke there is another genealogy

That goes all the way back to Adam

Luke chapter 3 verses 23 to 38

Definitely shows that he was a man.

He identified with each one of us

He showed complete dependence on God,

Even in the wilderness when tempted

By the sinister devil, that fraud.

In Luke his humanity is prominent

Even from the recording of his birth,

His compassion and sympathy were evident

As he reached out to all the earth.

Once as he stood overlooking Jerusalem

He looked down on the city and wept,

How he longed to gather them to himself

But for him, they had no respect.

His humanity was shown in Gethsemane

In that agonizing session

As he prayed in earnest to his Father,

O how he revealed his human passion!

There his sweat was like drops of blood

As he prayed the more earnestly,

Demonstrating again his humanity

As he previewed his pending agony.

Behold Your God

Matthew, Mark and Luke most may believe

But not John’s account of “Jesus as God”,

A perfect human or the archangel for some

But as God, they would never applaud.

Jesus’ use of I AM incensed the Jews

That claim was reserved for only God,

Such was their anger that they angrily declared

Jesus was a blasphemer, liar and fraud.

Yet John stated in the beginning was the Word

And the Word was God

And that the Word became flesh

John also spread it abroad.

At his arrest, Peter didn’t know the man

Though he had acknowledged him as the Christ,

But Thomas referred to him as Lord and God

When he saw the evidence of his sacrifice.

Jesus had not only come from God Himself

But God Himself who had come,

The Son of God means God Himself

The Son in the Father and the Father in the Son.

Behold a virgin shall be with child

And she shall bring forth a son,

And they shall call his name Emmanuel

Meaning, God Himself, with us has come.

He who has the Father accepts the Son

Along with the Holy Spirit these three-in-one,

God was in Christ reconciling the world

And through the Holy Spirit, the work is done.

Stewart Russell © April 2018