God Loves You
Lunminthang Haokip *
1. Never say brother, you cannot hear,
For God in your mind His thought can share;
Never say sister, you cannot see,
He blinds some that they may see better;
Ear or no ear, eye or no eye,
Who hears Him and mourns deep shall not die.
Coz you can't hear, God puts inner ear,
Coz you can't see, your mind's made to peer;
Coz you can't speak, hand-signs do the trick,
Coz you can't walk, help isn't far to seek;
For all pangs of woe infirm limbs bore,
Don't feel bad, God loves you all the more.
2. He gives ears that we may hear His Word,
He makes mind that we may know He's Lord;
He creates hands that all men may serve Him,
He gifts hearts that ev'ry soul may love Him;
But we end up doing things not noble,
So, to do good, we are disable.
3. This terse life on earth is but a test,
We curse fate, yet what He does is best;
Some get it good now to rue later,
Some are sad to rejoice thereafter;
If God makes you suffer to the core Today,
it's coz He loves you all the more.
4. For them who have new life in Christ,
Tho' they're now denied limb-movement free,
More than they that, with no thought of Christ,
Move limbs at will, blessed they shall be;
So, don't you feel sadly ill-at-ease,
One day your suffering shall come to cease.
(***** for Disables Day Out, Kpi, 2005)
* Poem written by Lunminthang Haokip, frequent contributor to e-pao.net .
You can contact the Poet at lunminthang(dot)haokip(at)gmail(dot)com or his blog here
This poem was webcasted on August 31 2011.
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