Mixing Mayhem with Amen

Two brothers, ages six and eightwere quite the mischief-makers,If hi-jinks happened, they twowere the movers and the shakers,Exasperated totally, their poorand harried Mama,Went to see their minister. Converseabout her trauma,He’d had some luck with otherboys all bent on causing trouble,She wanted help with her two ‘foretheir town'd reduced to rubble,The man agreed and said he’dlike to see them one by one,The younger first, that morning,with the elder later on...The preacher took thesix-year-old and sat him on a chair,Then stood before the boy andfixed him with a sober stare,Said to the lad, “Now tell me, son, do you know just where God is?”The little boy just stared (mouthgaped, right to his epiglottis),Again the preacher went on to repeathis simple question,Again the boy just stared at himwith fear in his expression,A third time (louder now), thepreacher thundered, “Where is God?”The small boy screamed and ranas though pursued by demon squads,Some time hence, his older brotherfound him in the cupboard,Pale and shaking like a leaf,his legs both weak and ‘rubbered’,The eight-year-old just lookedat him and slowly shook his head,Said, “What on earth is eatingyou? You look like you’re ‘most dead!”The younger boy gave him a look ofterror and of shame,“God has disappeared, Bro! Andthey think that we’re to blame!”
Photo Credit: Karen of bakinginatornado.comCause Mondays do get knocked a lot,
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So  Karen , Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?

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