When Research
When research had gone as far
as it could go for them
they stopped
and sat on it.
And fought over it
and spat on it.
They didn't stop,
they would not quit
the small, a small light had clicked --
pieces to a huger, bigger puzzle
waited, lying around them.
Dropped now and then --
by visitors old and new,
God was leading them, some
to the truth.
And only some stopped
to really listen and see. They saw
kept seeing, kept reading,
still prayng they were learning -- they followed
the Teacher's footprints.
And left the stopped and the sat behind them
for they were of another World
and place, or going to. Not many recognized
them for what they were
once they had gone beyond the bounds
where others had stopped, now sat,
now stood for all of that --
but no further, no different.
No one could pass the sitting by --
in the Night, with darkness unnoticed,
they would let out a small or mighty cry!
For they did not sit like them, but walked
they did not sound like them, but talked.
They had not stopped with them --
all on the same forks of the broad road in a maze,
growing smaller now,
with countless endless dayz past.
On a road to heaven, they continued -- on.
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Submitted by prayersfor on April 18, 2023
Modified by prayersfor on April 19, 2023
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Words | 278 |
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