PAD challenge day 8:For today’s prompt, write a blind poem.
I should not like to go through life
With eyes wide open, blind
Too focused on my toil and strife
To keep others in mind
I should not like to say when asked,
Oh, pray hold me excuse
While others bend to do the task
That ‘someone needs to do’
As season into season rolls
As time and choice enmesh
Oh, may my life be more than goals
To satisfy my flesh
Then, let me live with gentle eyes
Seeing another’s need
And not be blinded by a prize
Of lies to feed my greed
For then I would be blind in spite
Of eyes open full-wide
I should not like to go through life
A victim of my pride
God, help, lest I deceive my mind
And miss what I should see
Lest I live blinder than the blind
Because I lived for me
© Janet Martin
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who
are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was
naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and
you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did
we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did
we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did
we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them,
‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my
brothers,[a] you did it to me.’ Matt.25:34-39
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