A Proposition and Its Answer

 

A proposition by Him addressed to man:

 

Look and see your fellow men

Crying, moaning

Sinful, dead

My eyes see only cruel despair

                      

 

Poisoned every rock and tree

Poisoned the very strength of Me

                              

Condemned and cursed

Since Adam and the Devil’s tree

Won’t your fellow men put faith in Me?

 

Selfish mortals not with creed

Your fellow men need help indeed

                       

Gasping, gaping

For the truth

Hunger strikes them through and through

 

Dig a grave much bigger than what is now yours

For your growing sins make you so much more

Take your greed

You’re self-absorbed

So, see My wonders, I implore!

                     

 

For when the days come that bring tomorrows

See the barren ground harden

Bleak and dead, it will be

Lifeless, dirty

Literally, the Black Sea

 

So, — I beg you to understand

I hope you realize

Even your very actions now are seen by Me

And your pit widens as you refuse to concede

 

 

An answer from man addressed to Him:

 

Create, for me, a line

That combines all the ethics of life

Write it to me here

             

And when I read it I should sigh

For the power and the pleasure should be too high

 

Detail me the rights

Etch them upon my mind

Point to me the lies

And bar me from deceit

Shelter me from the very hands from that the Devil weeps

 

Show to me the scars

You received when abiding by wrongs

Plunder me into darkness

So that I may be clear from all this bewilderment

 

Shame me to tears

And I shall learn, my Dear

Whisper things into my head

So that I may not fall to Lucifer when I am dead

                                      

 

And, the whisper came:

 

Şeytanla ortak buğday eken samanını alır *

Sow wheat with the Devil and you will receive what is dead

Körle yatan şaşı kalkar **

Follow the deceivers and you will be forever damned

                                     

 

*Who sows wheat with the devil will get its chaff

 

**Who lies with the blind gets up cross-eyed

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Legion]

I liked it. Except for that lying with the blind cross-eyed bit. Just a goofy saying to me. An interesting conversation going on here. Well written also. Well done.