Literature
Urgency
We escape heartache,
we flee from pain.
We'd rather rationalise,
we'd rather not be moved,
but stay here comfortably,
close our eyes so we won't see
that truth which would force us
to change.
Comfort
is our disease,
paralysing, holding, binding,
shutting our mouths,
our eyes blinding -
we don't want the truth,
because the truth hurts too much
and we don't want to hurt.
The truth.
Whoever does not
have the Son of God
does not have life.
Lord,
give me pain.
Let me hurt for the lost,
like you hurt for them
and bled and died
rather than ignore the pain.
Give me urgency
for this great emergency;
wake me from complacency