From Womb To Tomb Is My Life Going To Be Poem by Royston Allen

From Womb To Tomb Is My Life Going To Be

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I had never, ever seen the light of day
and have had to use a stick to find my way.
From womb to tomb is my life going to be
walking in darkness because I cannot see?

'Lord who did wrong' someone said,
'Was it this man or his parents instead? '
'No one had sinned' I heard Jesus say.
'For you will see the glory of God today.'

Just there as we stood to my great surprise
He made some mud and pasted it on my eyes.
Then He told me to go to the place called 'Sent'
So off to the Pool of Siloam I went.

As I washed my eyes I received my sight
and for the very first time could see sunlight.
Saw men and animals, trees and the sky
and watched all the people walking by.

Blind leaders of the blind they did not realise
that it was the Christ who had opened my eyes.
For until my eyes were opened by the Lord
I had remain blind and dead to God's word.


Written after reading John 9: 1-12

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
John 9: 1-12
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? '
'Neither this man nor his parents sinned, ' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.'
After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 'Go, ' he told him, 'wash in the Pool of Siloam' (this word means 'Sent') . So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbours and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, 'Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg? ' Some claimed that he was.
Others said, 'No, he only looks like him.'
But he himself insisted, 'I am the man.'
'How then were your eyes opened? ' they asked.
He replied, 'The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.'
'Where is this man? ' they asked him.
'I don't know, ' he said.


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