E X P E C T I N G    A D A M

       by Z.B.McClure               7-6-09

      Bending low to serve

       I nearly tore my back in two.

       'Least that's how it felt to me.

       Such awesome pain, stabbed-out my breath--

        OH!

       And froze my mortal frame 'round

       that arresting pain.

        Chose to serve on just the same.

       Foolish person that I am.

              ~

       By some fellow humans:

       Received their well-earned

       sympathy. 

       Some have known this kind

       of pain before-

       But from others?

       No sympathy  it seemed.

                ~

       LORD !  Where is the humanity

       in Humanity?

       Has sensitivity been so jaded

       that some have cauterized

       their hearts so that

       they won't feel again?

                  ~

       Oh I would not judge

       my fellow man!

       For I know myself

       from gazing into God's Mirror.

       My own heart's tendencies to morph

       insensitive...then cool,  till frozen

        like my frame transfixed

       by pain!

                    ~

       But still,  I ask :

       where is the humanity

        in Humanity?

       where is  adam ?