Bitter Sweet Sinphony

As my lonely, numbered days continue to slip by,

I think of you because you are the only thing that makes me feel alive.

My love for you reminds me that I have a soul.

It reminds me that there is a beating heart under this skin.

So alone, I stay with no place to feel at peace.

I am an outcast with nowhere to fit in.

Oh! But when I am near you,

I feel the warmth of home!

When you look into my eyes,

you set my soul on fire.

The soul that is alive because of the idea of you.

The irony of our friendship cuts the blood from my very skin.

Your addictions cloud your vision of the true reality that stares you in the face.

Your addictions kill us both but it is my own that is the true murderer.

For my addiction is you.

Will you love me?  Oh you could care less!

Our temporary highs hold our lives at bay.

When they are gone, conviction burns deep through layers of our sin.

Where is our savior?  When will this end?

Oh how I long for the day when the sound of your name

doesn’t make my heart race.

The day when your smile won’t turn my insides into

birds the flutter around my rib cage.

Until then I must repent of the sweetness of your sin.

I must bury myself in prayer

and wait for the promise to be fulfilled.

Only then will my soul truly be alive

and my heart truly at peace.

... and Justice for all.

Tonight Courtney and I went to see "Pineapple Express".  It was a hilarious movie and we had a ton of fun telling jokes through out it.  After the movie, we were walking back to my car when we saw a group of people yelling.  We stood and watched for a moment to see if there was about to be a fight.  Myself, being the Psychology major that I am, instantly thought of the Kitty Genovese case and the bystander effect.  While everyone else was waiting excitedly for a fight to break out, I was thinking of a way to safely break up the fight if it were to occur.  I automatically push open my phone, and say to Courtney that I think I should call 911.  I wasn't sure it was the best idea because no crime had yet occurred.  I just thought that if I did call and something did happen, the police when get there right in the nick of time.  By now, a good sized crowd had formed.  Courtney and I stood and watched for a moment.  Nothing seemed to be breaking out so we decide to continue walking back to the car.  As soon as we walk away, the yelling starts to grow loud again.  By now I was thinking, "Alright, time to call 911."  I dial the number and quickly hang up.  I was afraid that I was being over dramatic and I was not getting a lot of support for this idea.  As soon as I turn around to wait for Courtney, who was still watching what was going on, I see something fly through the air and hit a young man (who was not involved in the argument at all, in fact he just happened to be walking up at the very moment the object was thrown) in the face.  As he falls to the ground, the 911 operator calls me back and I proceed to tell her the events that just took place.  

 

My point in writing all of this is not to tell the story of an eventful evening or to toot my own horn for wanting to break up the situation.  My point is this: how do we expect to receive justice from this world if we do not give justice to this world?  As we all stand idly by and watch events such as this happen, we are doing an injustice to our fellow citizen.  We need to be the ones who must step up and stand out to serve one another.  Take the initiative.  If you see a situation such as this happening before you eyes, do something!

Further more, watching events such as this is called emotional pornography.  It feeds one of the most disgusting part of our sinful hearts.  We are desensitized to brutality.   Not only desensitized, but we crave it.  We would rather watch a person get hurt than stand up and try to prevent it from happening.

I hope that who ever reads this will take this information to heart.  We must stand up for one another.  We must stop injustice if we our selves want justice.  Please stand out of the crowd and stand up for what is right.