We Need More!

Day 29 PAD Challenge

 For today’s prompt, write a commercial poem.

The latest plastic gadget amplifies a futile thirst

Beneath a cry for more and more it seems that we are cursed

And when the thrill of new wears thin we turn to search again

For something that will satisfy the growling void within

They scream for our attention with a ‘don’t pay now’ control

Commercialism drawing innocence into a hole

As greed and need are misconstrued in colors that appeal

…an eighty-inch home-theater to watch a third world reel

Are colored balls the answer to our hungering for more?

Is happiness a promise that we purchase at a store?

…or better yet, don’t leave your comfy chair, but simply sign

Our life-savings into the air; now we can buy on-line!

This credit-craze is Holidays; the Christ-child has no part

For He Himself was Heaven’s gift to satisfy the heart

And only He can quench our thirst; though merchants ply and plead

Peace, joy and love, His gift to us is all the More we need

© Janet Martin

   

For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

 Of the increase of His government and peace
There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Isa. 9:6-7