The Leper
Larry McDonald
New Registrant
Once there was a man tossed from society.....he was a good man, but no one wants to see. They call him a Leper, one that rots away....no one comes close to him and this is how they stay! Stick him in a cave, put him over there...You know he is a leper, no one really cares. He's shunned by everyone, his own don't want to see.....Yes he is a leper...you know he has to be. Outcast and abandoned, everyone has jumped ship....they didn't really care because all they give is lip. I guess he is a leper, everyone says it's so....pushed aside again is how it all would go. My hands and feet are fine, no blemish do I see....but still I am a leper...they took my heart from me! How do you think I feel when no one wants to be ....a friend or a help to the leper that you see? My heart has been broken, bruised a lot you know...they laugh and talk about me....no love to me they show. I go before my Lord...He comforts me this day....I know longer care what others have to say! He knows my heart is true, I stand before Him clean...even when the others are cruel and are so mean....You see he heals the lepers, He loves them very much....even when the others just look but they don't touch! L.D.McDonald 2005 (USMC '68)