Jealousy

Let us talk of jealousy,

to dissect what it could be.

Let us take a closer look

at its tentacles and hooks.

Is there more than just one kind

of jealousy for us to find?

Is one kind healthy and good,

the other evil to the root?

Let us explore its origin

to see where it is all begin.

When we take a look inside,

we find the root of its abide.

This monster’s a self-centred one,

and this is where it’s all begun.

It’s when we put our own selves first,

that we develop jealous thirst.

That’s when human consumption starts;

with its poisoned envy darts,

it aims at what self-interest needs

without considering it greed.

It does not mind to isolate,

or even to manipulate,

to make sure it gets its way

with its morsel of human prey.

But let’s consider what it’s not;

it’s not love at it’s core plot.

It seeks not what the other needs

and doesn’t contain Spirit seeds.

It doesn’t know of sacrifice,

but holds love in a deadly vice.

It doesn’t care whom it destroys

by the evil schemes that it employs.

At it’s core, it speaks of lack,

of things that keep us off the track

of where God wanted us to be,

and clouds the way we think and see.

God made us with the right to choose,

knowing well that He might loose

us in the garden of Eden

where at first it all began.

If God did not use forced control

to keep us in our pre-cast role,

why do we force our will and way

on those we love to make them stay?

An original poem by Miekie (Marietjie Uys).

'n Oorspronklike gedig deur Miekie (Marietjie Uys).

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