Weary Your Eyes

Sometime in 2001 or 2002 I had an image-less dream/vision in the middle of the night. It was disturbing and it penetrated my mind deeply.  The words spoken to me in the dream have never been forgotten.  This poem, attempting to capture the meaning of the dream, was written on May 9, 2012.

Weary Your Eyes

The voice in the dream was clear and concise
Words were stated not once but twice
No image remembered, nothing to hold
Words as new as the message was old

You must weary your eyes of war
You must weary your eyes of war

We see with our eyes, with our eyes we see
Initially offensive and instinctively shocking
Objections collapse against voices now mocking
Our minds make sense, with sense we now mind

You must weary your eyes of war
You must weary your eyes of war

Man’s weakness assures a new daily fight
A cornucopia of sins is Satan’s delight*
Seventy times seven** for war to dissolve
Seventy times seven for peace to evolve

You must weary your eyes of war
You must weary your eyes of war

Replacing fear with faith one step is taken
The history of man temporarily forsaken
Love and truth - wings upon which we fly
New vision appears, new hope for the eye

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* See New Testament (KJV), James 4:17: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

** See New Testament (KJV), Matthew 18:21-22: ‘Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” When given a task from heaven, we must never give up.