ONLY SON

A crowd it gathers and gently mocks

The man standing on his little box

The staff in the shops they roll their eyes,

To them it comes as no surprise

They find it all a bit of a bore

But then they’ve heard it all before.

Every week about this time

He’s there reciting the same lines:

“God” he says “Loved Everyone

So much, he gave his only son!”

He stands amongst the jeering crowd

Shouting it loud and saying it proud

His message bellows out quite clear

To anyone who wants to hear

For a crowd it gathers every week

(Perhaps it’s not saving they seek)

They seem to want to shout him down

As his voice carries across the town:

“God” he says “Loved Everyone

So much, he gave his only son!”

Now I haven’t got an axe to grind

About this message to mankind,

But this idea seems flawed to me

When you consider it logically.

If someone claimed to “love you dear”

And to prove it did then appear

To “give” to you the corpse of their son

I think that you’d quite rightly run!

Yet God, we’re told, loved everyone

So much, he “gave” his only son.

Now some will argue it means faith

And proof of everlasting life

But then that means God wins both ways

And killed him merely to amaze,

For if there was no risk he’d die

There’s no loss to God, no tears to cry

He’s really given up sod all

So it’s no sacrifice at all

That this God loved everyone

So much, he gave his only son.

Martin A W Holmes May 15, 2012