Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Cast the first stone

I wrote this poem a few years ago and it feels quite fitting today, relating to a situation I won't get into because it's personal.

"Cast the first stone

Cast the first stone, why don't you?

Cast the stone on the adulteress who's crouching in the dust
never mind the nameless man who was with her
Cast the stone on the drug addict who's shaking all over
never mind the one who first sold him powdered dreams
Cast the stone on the loser who cannot pull his life together
never mind that he never had any hope to stand upon

Cast the stone on the lost child looking for boundaries
Cast the stone on the lost soul looking for purpose.

Cast the first stone, why don't you?

Cast the stone of your judgement
Cast the stone of your fears
Cast the stones of your own shortcomings and insecurities.

Cast the first stone, why don't you?

Condemn with your righteous hearts
Cast your cursing stones upon the sinner.

Have you forgotten?
You'll be buried under the stones you've thrown
They will be the monument on your grave

Because Jesus said:

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. (John 8:7)

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Luke 6:37 and Matthew 7:2)

Have you forgotten?
It was the tax collector
the sinner
the outcast
who went home forgiven
not the religious man boasting about his own spirituality.
(Luke 18:9-14).

Because Jesus said:

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. (Mark 2:17)"