The Cloud
in response to Urbana 70by Clifford Bajema
Most awed and threatened, too,
by the massive display of youthful regiments
assembled in ordered array
under the arching, web-like fingers
of a cemented mushroom: poised
in
lethal
suspension
and
hopeful
anticipation
of
drifting
to
distant
continents
whereon
to
drop
its
human
dust,
I can not stop my guilty self from wondering,
wondering,
wondering if I will be as quick
to clap my hands to the will of God
when His order of some day is to starve
in a lonely hovel
with hungry men
without the spiritual smorgasbord of celebrated speakers
to feed
and say
and say
and say
to me
the Way.
published by InterVarsity in His magazine March 1971
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