BY ALEM HAILU G/KRISTOS
When a
Remorseful convert,
Astray that had gone far
Blemishing his /her soul
With Sin’s tar,
Puts a broken heart
On the altar,
By far,
S/he could enjoy
God’s grace
Or even
Win a higher place
In His face
Than a devotee,
Taking pride
In his/her deed,
Who oft mount
A spiritual war
Devil’s way to bar.
It is with
A broken heart
The culprit
Hanged by the right
Of Jesus Christ
Got to Eden’s garden First
Though Adam, Moses,
Abraham, Job
And others were
Top on the short list.
It is by the virtue of
Their determination
Sinful ways to quit
Zacchaeus and
Mary Magdalene
Were seen fit
Than the hypocrite!
It is this line
From genesis
To revelation
God labors to bring
To our attention
So with conviction
Let us pray for
Our soul’s resurrection.
Of course, no doubt,
Our devotion could buttress
Our chance to enjoy
His mercifulness!
Truth
BY SENAIT G/HIWOT
We try to be perfect
But we often get lost
We are not always right
Things are not always bright
We have a darker side
That we deny so bad
We suppress our emotions
To experience happiness
But it doesn’t work like that
That is the known fact
Happy emotions come with sad
The good comes with the bad
As there is night and day
Feelings change the same way
The world is meant to be heavenly
For those whose mind is easy
They don’t worry or bother
About things that don’t matter
They are conscious about the moment
Never once do they go out of it
For majority of us that isn’t the case
We try to find a needle in a maize
Our intelligence demands definition
To every little thought and action.
Part of us wants to be ill
We don’t know how to be still
We can say we miss the darkness
In the time we find happiness
our creativity is fueled by pain
Without it there is no gain
Stability gives us boredom
We can’t pass the conundrum
Without being tied to the norm.
As a diamond shines through heat
Ours is revealed through it!
“We are all like the bright moon,
We still have our darker sides”
Wait with Patience (Gurindam)
BY ALEMSEGED SISAY
So I whom have lived suffered
for the love, for the betray i got
Oh man on his road whom have lived suffered
long walked on ages journey so tired
When the darkness comes whom have lived suffered
they will pierce the wall of their hidden mind
Begging God latter whom have lived suffered
To see rays of hope through the hole of the pierced wall
The accolade for whom have lived suffered
In the heaven of God is awaiting us
There is joy for whom have lived suffered
Albeit nothing granting from our age we have got
Gurindam poem, a type of irregular verse forms of traditional Malay poetry
The Ethiopian herald May 19/2024
