Serving Others Poem by Denis Martindale

If all you seek proves self, self, self,
No other heart to love,
Then God must leave you on the shelf,
As your love's not enough...
Consider poets all alone,
No other soul in sight,
Yet by their loving words they're known
With every verse they write...

Consider love songs and those stars
There on your TV screen,
Outstanding talents, they're first class,
No wonder they're so keen...
Perhaps some end up millionaires
And in their mansions live,
While starving children whisper prayers
For food that others give...

Consider actors on the stage,
Or seen in films as well,
Of such as these, who's reached the stage
Salvation's truths to tell?
Yet people live and people die,
Some saved and Heaven-bound,
While others ponder, asking why?
As if grace can't be found...

And who donates in times like these
Regardless of the cost?
In answer to a billion pleas
By those both saved and lost?
And who asks God for sage advice,
For insights old and new?
I know that I seek Paradise,
But wonder if you do...

To think, that Easter comes each year
And Christ calls us to serve,
He beckons us to volunteer,
To start God's learning curve...
For only then, when God comes first,
Can we do what we can,
To end all hunger and all thirst
And serve our fellow man...


Denis Martindale April 2017.