The Futility of Poetry/Words Alone...

Better to walk than talk it 

For who we serve shines through 

And words will often mock it 

If they spar with what we do 

Better to live love’s token 

Than write them in a song 

Love that is simply spoken 

Is like a clanging gong 

Better to be a sermon 

Rather than just sit by 

For words can weave a poem 

But second miles don’t lie 

Better to serve God wholly 

With kind humility 

For all our boasts are lowly 

Compared to Calvary

Better to guard heart-lockets

Than paint a fine façade 

Better to walk than talk it

And leave the rest to God

Fear God; keep His commandments

This whole duty of man

Speaks louder through obedience

Than any fine speech can

© Janet Martin

Ecles.12:13-14 NKJV

 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter;

Fear God and keep His commandments,

For this is man’s all.

14 For God will bring every work into judgment,

Including every secret thing,

Whether good or evil.

Luke 6:45

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, 

and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. 

For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.