Robbers

ROBBERS

My neighbor buys birdseed

and field corn on the cob.

Who is it that comes to feed?

The squirrels and chipmunks come rob.

Then across the yard they run

to hide millet and field corn

where it will grow in the sun.

It looks like someone’s having fun.

Did the squirrels and chipmunks know

when they hid the millet and corn

that those seeds would one day grow

with help from the rain and sun?

Did these robbers realize?

Or are they in for a surprise?

Will they come back to investigate

what’s growing behind the garden gate?

Here’s millet growing in the green beans.

Growing taller every day it seems.

It’s in a race with the field corn.

Are the robbers hungry and yearn?

It didn’t pay to rob.

It’s not a paying job

for in the end they lost

a free dinner at no cost.

* * * * *

To rob means to steal.

Slander also steals.

It steals someone’s good name.

It leaves that person defamed.

Slanderers try to demean

and end up being mean

while they try to make themselves appear

better or wiser or superior.

Remember: Set a guard over your mouth,

or keep your opinion to yourself,

will save someone’s reputation –

mostly yours if you slander often.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue

keeps himself from calamity.

Proverbs 21:23

Lancifolium Lily

Bulblets in each leaflet to propagate.

Miraculous!

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