Misunderstandings.....

Failing a word to understand
A gesture or a tale
Can lead to anger no one planned
And even lives can fail

Misunderstandings cause much pain
Cause oft a broken heart
Can cause one’s love to run in vain
And vicious wars to start

Often with love our views we’ll share
Using some gentle word
But Satan as prince of the air
May make it sound absurd

Words; the devil can so construe
Can tongue and mind evoke
Till wholly changed; our point of view
Is not the one we spoke

But how we ask can this be done?
Exploiting people’s will
How can some point of harmless fun?
Produce someone to kill

We needn’t know his every ploy
His strengths or evil plan
We need but God, His graceful joy
And what He gives to man

His overwhelming sense of peace
The hand of Christ His Son
With such one’s life will never cease
When time has ceased to run

We need to do what Christ would do
Graceful in word and deed
Where first we’ve failed we try anew
Planting love’s peaceful seed.....