Read this poem today. Wow! Convicting. THE ONE EYED MONSTER, referring to TV (could also refer to many Computers) . . . . . We have an idol in our home with one great glaring eye, He occupies the foremost place and I will tell you why. We sacrifice to him our time because he’ll entertain And to our bulging eyes display all of life’s sorry train Of vice, and crime, and viciousness, or horror, shame, and sin. (We’ve wasted many precious hours since we have let him in.) For now he dominates our home, for God we have no time, Our eyes are dimmed by gunsmoke and our mind is filled with crime. “I bring into your living room bartender, harlot, thief, And from the sick commercials I give you no relief. “I brainwash children, and prepare their minds by what they hear; I make attractive: violence, sin, cigarettes, and beer. “You speak of young delinquents and deplore their evil deeds While I continue merrily to sow the vicious seeds. “The cheating wife, or husband, is the accepted thing, We’re living in a ‘modern’ world, Go to it, have your fling! “Away with outworn ‘standards’, our day is modernized, There’s no such thing as right or wrong, for sin is glamorized. “I set the world’s criteria; I am the household god. (If you protest against me, you’re a puritanic clod!) “I am the one that rules your home, from God I turn your heart, I fill your mind with banal trash by foul hypnotic art.” Once family altars occupied the place where we now see The glaring eye of Cyclops, though now he’s called ‘TV’.”
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:40:36 +0000
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