Can’t Happen

 

 

Two words I hear often

Usually in annoyance

And they come after the fact

In every instance.

 

Only today

I heard these words

And it was after the annoyance

Had already occurred.

 

Can’t happen

After it has happened

Is of little comfort, my friend,

To the one threatened.

 

Especially after

It has happened before

And is currently happening again

And likely some more.

 

So, what do we mean,

I mean, really mean,

When we say, “Can’t happen!”

Re a reoccurring scene?

 

Who’s to stop it

From happening again

Or from continuing to happen

Like the rain?

 

Who looks at the rain

And say “Can’t happen” again

And really believes such

If he is not insane?

 

 

Can’t happen

Especially after the fact

Is nothing more than a placebo

And this is a fact.

 

It’s a consolation:

A “make me feel good”,

It’s like a promise to a fool:

A slumbering dud.

 

Sounds authoritative

Like a kitten that roars

Or, like a demanding beggar,

Knocking on doors.

 

Can’t happen

Is none too comforting

Especially when it’s ongoing

And unsettling.

 

Add to “Can’t happen”

“Not ‘bout hey”

And straight-up you know,

It’s just a term we say.

 

Meaningless at most,

Authoritative at least,

Like the PM’s “Stop and desist!”

Expecting it to cease.

 

Words say a lot

But they do nothing

Unless humanly implemented

To do their bidding.

 

 

Unless of course,

That someone is God,

He is omniscient and omnipotent,

He is The All in All.

 

He spoke the word

And it was done

And sooner or later we’ll know,

He is the only one.

 

Stewart Russell © August 1, 2024

 

Fake News and Alternative Facts

 

What interesting times we live in!

What perilous times as well!

What weird repackaging of sin!

No wonder some believe here is hell.

Heaven is here and so is hell

Depends on what one makes it,

This is the view I’ve heard some tell

So we had better learn to fit.

Fake news is on the increase

Alternate facts are on the rise,

Some want Biblical truth to cease

While others the sacred Word despise.

Bizarre orientations are a fact of life

Mostly in first world countries,

And legal minds are causing strife

To visit on the local communities.

Take prayer out of the schools

And remove the Bible too

God and education! That’s not cool!

Is becoming the scholastic view.

Christianity is for weaklings

Religion, a placebo and cop out

Their pseudo God in a manner of speaking

Is nothing much to shout about.

He’s just a good feeling like a drug

That always wears off with time

And inevitably becomes a humbug

Is what some intellectuals opined.

There is no God but man himself

There’s no limit to what he can achieve,

The Bible is like any other book on the shelf

Isn’t this what they want us to believe?

 

 

 

Fake news and alternative facts

As true as true can be,

Thousands believe it and say it’s that

That is the new truth they want us to see.

  

There is no need for verification

And definitely no need to investigate,

Millions propagate its publication

Positing it as true even though it’s fake.

The only truth in an alternative fact

Is the fact that it is always a lie,

The gullible receives it as a juicy scrap

And the demand exceeds the supply.

It spreads with speed like a forest fire

Obscuring the truth in its wake,

Increasing the victims of the Chief Liar

Like leaves swept up by a garden rake.

No resistance to the certain untruth

Like hungry souls they gobble it up,

The millions that believe, their only proof

And upon that lie they excitedly sup.

Deep in the mind a certain doubt

That further recedes under the weight

Then disappears with the popular shout

As the truth gives way to the fake.

 

 

 

Fake news and alternative facts

Are really one and the same,

This two-in-one scourge burns up the track

And the sensational vibe fans the flame.

There’s nothing new under the sun

Not even this current distraction

For as long ago as in the biblical Eden

Fake news became an attraction

Served up by none other than Satan

Our fore parents released their grip

And disregarded the Creator’s instruction

Fake news had done the trick.

Nothing new I must repeat

Regarding alternative facts and fake news,

The more incredible the sweeter the treat

The more ridiculous are the reviews.

It will get worse the Bible says

As the coming of the Lord draws near,

Mankind will be driven by his selfish ways

And men’s hearts will fail them for fear.

Nothing will be too ridiculous to attempt

Nothing too low to conceive,

Man’s depravity will be allowed to vent

On a world that is already deceived.

But all is not lost for the Christian child

In fact nothing really at all

For nothing can God’s sheep defile

That has answered the Shepherd’s call.

No alternative fact or fake news

Can disillusion the Lord’s elect

Who daily God’s Word will choose

And the alternatives and fakes reject.

Stewart Russell © November 2017