The Lord’s Commandments

The Lord’s Commandments:
An Introductory Poem

The biblical commandments; ten in all;
Announced by Moses, the Lord’s word from upon the hill.
Those who contravene such, it was said would fall
No longer believed, not even known, have we had our fill?

Who realises them in the modern day?
Little and few, far between, I’d wager.
Immorality and modernity bound, I say.
The morals of old lost, like the babe in the manger.

So long that there’s no commercial value
The masses dispel such from their minds, their recall.
Yet when there’s a present; expensive and new;
An egg or deforested tree, we’ll continue to fall.

Well, here they follow, my redeemable reader.
Do learn them and try your utmost to see:
There exists a principle; that of a true leader:
First: Thou shalt have no other gods before me;
Obey or it will be as troubled water beneath a broken bridge
Second: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image;
This is disrespect for Christ above, henceforth no gold or frankincense.
Third: Thou shalt not bow to false idols, but keep unto my commandments;
Lost in the false idolism of the present day; what shame.
Fourth: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;
In everyday life is there blasphemy.
Fifth: Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy;
It no longer exists, money’s the bother.
Sixth: Honour thy father and thy mother;
Piety of such: less and infrequent, people: so avaricious; so shrill.
The seventh be famous: Thou shalt not kill;
Abided by, though escaping the hearts of many.
The eighth: Thou shalt not commit adultery;
It is but a probability now, a ratio: unreal.
The ninth be known: Thou shalt not steal;
Common and widespread; blamed on financial strife.
Tenth; Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife;
Envy: the final obstacle to an eternal life.

Well; there they be, in all their hallowed glory.
Have you learnt? Did you see
The principle, the truth and moral of antiquity;
Lost and destroyed in our cursed modernity?
I sincerely do hope so, I shan’t deny;
For they are our survival, you and I.

Read them; absorb the word; so that you may know
The peril humanity faces; this insuppressible flow.
A flowing waterfall of the iniquity and sin of all;
Laden upon you is God‘s diminishing call;
To halt our world’s disastrous fall.