Randy E. Richmond

DIFFERENT GODS?

Can their God be so perverted
He could smile on this sight?
Can he celebrate this carnage;
Does he dance with delight?

How could Allah applaud
As the innocent bleed?
Does he condone senseless slaughter;
Is their joy reward for the deed?

Tell me… what kind of a God
Makes his children believe
That from murderous mayhem
His blessings are received?

Is he so different from our God
Who counts the sparrows fall?
That his people could think his will
Is for them to kill us all?

There is One who knows the answers;
Whose judgment brings the final say
Where many thousand sweet, sweet souls
Have joined Him just today

©Copyright September 12, 2001 by Randy E. Richmond

We hoist our flags again today
Up to their highest height
We continue to in earnest pray
To prepare for the long fight

Raising them from half-mast
Diminishes not our grief
Sorrow for the souls that passed
Could never be so brief

Before us are more trying times
Of which we all they will involve
From taking payment for the crimes
To maintaining our resolve

So get ‘em back up to the top
The old red, white, and blue
And may we never ever stop
‘til we’ve done what we must do

The eagle’s misty eyes are clearing
And Old Glory’s proud and tall
Now freedom’s foes will soon be hearing
The footsteps of us all!