May I Be Last

 
"So the last shall be first and the first shall be last." 


 
Is it the Wall Street banker or the suspicious IMF chief?

Is it the reality TV star distorting our children with fancy pretty pettiness as our cultural belief?

Is it the starving child in Somalia clutching her bloated belly waiting for your Angels to take her pain away?

Is it my brothers running amok in streets brandishing their fists with guns as shields of their insecurities every day?


 
"So the last shall be first and the first shall be last."


 
Is it billionaires who's tax breaks can feed thousands of people for hundreds of days?

Is it political pundits that wage vicious class wars as a game on a national stage?

Is it those who struggle daily with your laws and commands?

Is it those who want to listen yet live without conscience or care for our fellow man?


 
May I be last My Lord?


 
May I be your servant to walk in your ways…

To be first means less for my brothers and sister that would stand behind me;

To demonstrate unity…we can walk side by side


 
May I be last; to call for strife and division, to call to arms, to lock down, to lock out, to shut up, to shut in, to imprison indiscriminately

May I be last; to agree, to stand silently, to look the other way, to hope it never happens to me.


 
May I be last My Lord?


 
May I be last to walk away…

To be first, only shows my back to my brothers and sisters.

To demonstrate unity…we can walk side by side

May I be last My Lord…may I be last.


 
For when we all enter your gates…the last, will be the first...to celebrate!


 

 
By Howard SERGIO Tucker © 9/17/2011