Where are you going, my people?
Where does your path lead you
Through the errors of this confused time,
Where brother betrays brother,
And mothers abandon their children,
That they perish in the swamp of the gutter;
Where men forget,
That women, the beloved,
Are still something sacred.
Where are you going, my people?
Where does your path lead you
Through false riches and splendor?
Fat and dumb, you drive through noise and lust,
Without looking for the day
And the high heaven,
For the forests that yet remained,
And the fields that fed you faithfully
Throughout the generations.
Where are you going, my people,
Between recklessness and doom?
Have you forgotten what your fathers and ancestors built,
Loved and ennobled,
My people, what has been held the highest since time immemorial
Among gods and men: Loyalty, honor, love —
Not the enemy, how could he have done this —
Only you yourselves could have denied these things
And so scornfully crushed them.
Where are you going, my people?
You worship lies,
And raise them to your altars,
In their name you betray your best:
The deaths of your sons, the tears of your mothers,
The burning need
Of your homelands’ fate.
Burning with shame, even strangers blush,
That you have so deeply
Forgotten yourselves!
― Ursel Peter
We are going down the toilet.
As the colorful Chuck Yeager would say, we are “divergent on three axes”. (axes being the plural of axis, not ax). Our collective propeller is fixing to dig our collective grave.
Exactly. Where are you going ‘My’ people.
Many have forgotten the Word, His Word, many never listened never heard His Word, never sought to Truly understand His Word. First and foremost in surviving this event (life) is a Spiritual connection to Him, not physical.
In the world not of the world, yet we are to participate to an extent.
You do know this was not written by a Christian, right? This poem is not ‘Yahweh’ calling ‘his’ people. While I admire your dedication to your faith, not everything is about calling people to a Jewish god. Sometimes there is a call to return to our own unique ethnic heritage. Sometimes it’s not about religion, at all.
What is a Christian? we both know this word was introduced do we not?
we also both know the verse John 10-16.
By the way good morning,
my comment wouldn’t ya know “waiting for approval.”
So you never answered?
Who is Ursel Peter?
I might be wrong but the poetic style translated from German would make her:
Ursel Peter was an Austrian poet born on August 8, 1923 in Weigelsdorf, Czechoslovakia. Her poems were popular among the returning soldiers of World War II 1. She passed away on January 31, 1970 in Linz, Austria
Further web search shows her poems were among the materials banned in the anti-nazi efforts in Germany post war.
SNIP of the poem:
Through the errors of this confused time,
Where brother betrays brother,
And mothers abandon their children,
That they perish in the swamp of the gutter;
Where men forget,
That women, the beloved,
Spoke of the abandonment of families to the madness in the streets of post war Germany. Gangsters and Foreign military ran things. A woman could be gotten for a can of spam and so on.
A bad time to be German. Her poems were banned in order to hide some of the shame and pride lost in Germany.
One wonders if such poems might have been written after General Sherman raped and burned his way through the South?
History seems to support it.
Thanks Michael, i searched yesterday but did not come up with any results that made sense.
God was not calling us to a religion. Jewish god?
You are taking this to far!
Is this from Dostoevsky ?Very interesting non the less. Thank you.
So you never answered?
Who is Ursel Peter?
“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”
-- Frederic Bastiat
Catastrophe will be a valuable lesson, and i do not see us avoiding this.
Also i did answer your question up above ( still waiting “approval”) yes i know it is the system.