For Jerusalem
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The city torn by age-old war
The holy city of the Jews
Razed by years of war
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The holy city of the kings
The city of David, Solomon, Judah
The symbol of hope that God brings
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The city Abraham’s children founded
Where love and laughter once had shown
Now death and dying lay mounded
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
They who turned away from God
Children of Israel, turn back! Repent!
Your hardened hearts only evil forebode
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The city of Messiah’s gruesome death
The people there are hardened still
Refusing the touch of God’s cleansing breath
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The city drenched in Hebrew tears
The Temple has fallen, it stands forgotten
Through the many years
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
The city of enemies throughout the ages
The battle-ground of Arabs and Jews
Long predicted by ancient mages
A house divided cannot stand
And neither can Jerusalem
copyright 2008 by Magical Ink (magical-ink.blogspot.com)
Comments
Amen!
That was beautiful. The imagry in the poem takes me back to the streets, the buildings, the shops, the people. The wailing wall especially comes to mind with the line, "The temple has fallen, it stands forgotten". It is so sad to see so many people there ferverently praying, yet rejecting the only one who can save them.
Hey, nice job-as usual. I
Hey, nice job-as usual.
I especially liked the lines,
A house divided cannot stand/ And neither can Jerusalem
It reminds me of the time when Israel and Judah split.
Beautiful... yet so sad
I love your poem, Heather.
I've always wanted to go to Israel... however living in the Middle East makes that hard.
I find it funny how a place that more or less brought us Shalom now longs for it so much...
I find it funny how a place that our faith began in is now so faithless... and the faithful are still lost.
I find it funny how the Arabs and the Israelites came from the same father, and are so similar - language, culture, dress... and yet they manage never to agree.
And yet I can have so little peace... be so faithless compared to God's faithfulness... and get angry at those I should love...
Thanks, everyone! I really
Thanks, everyone! I really appreciated the comments. Israel has always fascinated me. Not only the country and her history, but the name itself, Israel. It makes a part of me ache when I think about her, the part that always longs for something above this world.
The interest has also come from reading the Joel C. Rosenberg books, starting with The Last Jihad and ending with Dead Heat. If anyone wants some scary, real-life, its-happening-now reading, along with some ideas about the End Times, I'd check those books out.
Good job!
I like it, it's well thought out.