Poem: The Message Man

The Message Man

Who is this message man

That is so sure he can

Who is this unknown guy

How will he satisfy?

 What message does he send

That we should comprehend

What does he try to say

For us to read today?

He writes about the rich

And, yes he has a bitch

He says they have all power

From out their ivory tower

 He says the under class

And, yes the middle mass

Now slowly sink into

A debt owed to the few

He says that we should know

What trouble that we sow

If we do not take note

Of those for whom we vote

He writes that we can change

This fix that seems so strange

If we will do the sums

And then vote out the bums

And next he writes a screed

He thinks we all should read

To show the proof of God

Cannot support the nod

 As Pastor Broocks has said

That God is not now dead

And gives us “evidence”

He claims will all make sense.

The message man says no

As careful thought will show

No evidence is shown

The Pastor’s case is blown

The clockwork God from where?

That argument so bare

And Darwin stands so strong

As Pastor Broocks is wrong

The Pastor turns to scripture

He doesn’t get the picture

The universe is all

And man is very small

 The message man is saying

If you resort to praying

That is your perfect right

As he would not lose sight

But do not be confused

By “evidence” he used

The Pastor’s proof it falls

When meeting logic’s walls

The message man writes rhymes

About life’s many times

The good and then the bad

The glad and too the sad

And as you read the message

And wend through ev’ry passage

You will make the call

Did he rise or fall?

September 2021

Cliff Somers