Page 2 Poems
" '01 Boring June Series" - Includes Commentary
'01 Boring June Series:
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Time seemed to have froze,
Yet, quickly time goes,
And passed away rather suddenly.
It’s actually becoming boring
to me.
The hot fiery sun outside,
Seem to bake my guts inside,
Making me yawn and become sleepy,
Killing my time unproductively.
So what’s up with the summer?
At least I don’t have to hear
many rumors.
Will I finally be able to go
to Church?
After all, it’s been so long
away from Church.
Being in Mid June praying for
my sister,
Hoping that God would protect
her,
As she is off to Naval Academy.
Meanwhile my own boredom hangs
with me.
Oh, one Boring June.
?1 Boring June.
At least God is with me.
By Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
I guess even before school was over, I expected it.
The hot burning sun that June brought along was making
me feel miserable.
Heck, I usually love the heat and the summer. But that was not so during the mid-week of June of 2001.
I was actually tired and inactive!
And the week before, I was dreaming of the moment
when school was over and I could read my Bible, without
interference from any homework or studying for school.
It was what I wanted…and then the week came after
school is over and I was already too exhausted and too lazy!
Sometimes, in the middle of our boredom, it’s hard
to worship God or have a clear focus on Him.
Emotionally, we might become apathetic.
It’s hard, and I would be the first to admit it.
But in the middle of it all, when we don’t feel like
reaching for the Bible or work with deep theological issues,
just remember: God is there.
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When
the four years finally pass,
And
High school is now in the past,
I
now wonder where I will be?/font>
Will
I ever sail the Seven Sea?
Will
I find myself overseas,
Perhaps
serving with other missionaries?
Or
would I be in a televised debate,
Dealing
with a loud mouth atheist for Christ sake?
And
what about living a life of danger,
Serving
as a crazy Bible-smuggler?
In
one sense I’m glad High School is over,
But
in the other, I have to wonder,
Where
is God going to take me in my life?
Will
I live a life of strife,
And
many struggle?
Or
will my life be mediocre,
Being
the same and routine,
It’s
okay; so long it’s with God’s planning?/font>
By
Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
It’s June 27, 2001 when I wrote this poem.
High school graduation was a week ago and everything
seem so far away.
It was as if school and the Christian club I was
involved with were months and months ago.
With my graduation, and turning eighteen several
things changed…in terms of serving God, I won’t be able
to be smacked right in a source of two thousand teens at
school in which I had unlimited amount of people to try
to make an impact for Christ on.
In a way, that brought some sadness to me.
It has been two extreme years in High School of outreach
and all…and now, it’s finally over.
In the end, all the pain, the mockery and the criticism
was worth it all…it was all in service for Christ.
Now that it’s over, I’m left to wonder what’s going
to happen for the rest of my life…I still want to reach
out to people and share with them Jesus and I still don’t
want to live a mediocre life.
I want to serve Jesus badly. Argh!
How I am frustrated at times!
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I can’t even believe it!
Next to the computer I sit,
Trying to go online,
And it’s bothering my mind,
To discover that my hours are
gone!
That’s forty hours gone!
So many stuff I need to do,
I hope I don’t go through,
A Summer time blue!
Gone are hours for the month,
Yet it’s only midway through
the month!
What am I left to do?
Will I be bored without a clue,
Or will I be able to past the
time,
Without any Internet time?
Imagine that: No AIM,
No email checks or ability to
send them,
And no sharing Christ to people,
Unable to preach the Gospel!
But in all and all,
There’s a good to it all:
Having Net Zero down,
Allows me to slow down,
And turn my attention to Jesus,
Worshipping Him more serious.
By
Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
One of the biggest factor to my boredom during the latter
half of June was the fact that the Internet Service Provider
I used, Net Zero, had a limit on the hours used per month
and I was out on those hours!
Personally, I felt it was my sister fault from using
most of the hours. But
what can I do? Boy
was I bored! Didn’t
know how much I was dependent on the Internet.
And one of my favorite activities when I’m online is
being on AIM witnessing Jesus to people and being open for
others to have prayer requests or ask questions.
But one of the lesson that came from Net Zero down
during June was the reminder I had from God that sometimes,
God takes away the thing that captures most of our attention
so that we may come to God and give Him our attention.
Maybe God has been trying to grab your attention in
your life. If so, I would really recommend you go towards Him and be reconciled
with Him. Oh
yeah—be sure to read the poem titled, “Luminous?
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Oh how boring it could get!
I’m sitting here tired of staring
at a fret!
The boredom is so loud!
It’s obnoxiously loud!
Could someone tune it down?
Is there anywhere I could hang
around?
Beat this boredom and all,
Or at least put it in a stall.
Sometimes it gets to a certain
point,
Almost like a breaking point,
Where you just want to feel mad,
You’re just feeling so bad!
Oh man, what can I do?!
Could only write a poem and complain
to you.
It’s so boring!
It’s so annoying!
But again, what can I do?
Am I also boring you?
By Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
I think this poem is self-explanatory.
Sometimes, the boredom could really, really get so
bad that the only thing to do is to respond to it just like
the mood that is carried in this poem.
When you are feeling bad like this and hanging on the
ends of the rope, there’s only one thing to do: Hang on with
Jesus Christ.
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I hope this would be a light
for you,
I hope you’ll remember this when
you’re blue.
May the poem shine like a light,
That’s so bright,
You’ll walk away remembering,
That One’s life came forth to
be redeeming,
For the sins of many who deserved
wrath.
But because of Him, we now have
a path,
In which we can be saved truly,
A gift from God Almighty.
So let us pray to Him and thank
Him.
May we accept this gift and serve
Him.
May we all not forget this,
But rather in trials or bliss,
Praise
be to His name,
Praise be to the one who’s not
a shame,
To receive the punishment for
you and me.
To Him be the glory!
By
Jimmy
Li
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Behind
the Poem:
I wrote and prayed to God that in this poem, God would speak
to someone’s heart out there that is reading this.
That is what I want more than anything else out of
all these poems. Just
for God’s light to shine on someone’s heart and let whoever
is reading this know that Jesus Christ died for our sins so
we can have God in our relationship in our life would be such
a blessing for me. God’s
love for us indeed is wonderful; Jesus Christ had to come
down and die for our sins, which is very real in order for
God to look at us not as a child of wrath, but His children,
ones that would call Him Lord and Savior and more importantly,
be saved forever. So
to all those who read
this, I just hope you really think about this in your life,
and come to Him.
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Well, the next time you are bored,
And you wonder what’s in store,
Maybe you should think about
this:
What could you do to glorify
Jesus?
It
does say in the Bible,
To work and not be idle.
So what can you do for Christ?
Well, remember the price,
He paid in full for your sin,
In order to have you forgiven?
Well you see, you could tell
people about it!
And do pray to God about it!
It’s simply to tell the Good
News happily,
And do it for God’s glory!
Yeah, I know it might be strange,
“Hey Jim, are you kinda derange??
“What’s this business of God’s
glory,
“Jim, aren’t you kind of crazy??
But hey, at least in the moment
of boredom,
I could stop for a while and
preach the Kingdom,
And have a treasure for eternality,
To tell others His love for you
and me.
By Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
Well, boredom isn’t a one time thing we defeat for good.
But hey, when it does pop back up again (and it will),
I hope you remember this poem that you read.
Stop for a moment and think about it; when you are
really bored, do you usually try to search for something you
could do? And
boredom usually does occur when we feel like there is really
nothing you can do! But just simply sharing Jesus can be a great way to pass dull
and idle moments. Yeah,
there might be thought such as, “I can’t…my friends would
think I’m weird?or “I’m afraid? but hey, you want to know
something? It
isn’t that scary if you actually do it after awhile. Of course, I’m not saying we should all be yelling on top of
our lungs outside some friend’s house; tell it normally and
with love to that person.
Most of all, that dull and boring moment would have
been put to use by telling people about Jesus!
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I sat down with the yearbook
on my desk,
A yearbook like a memory chest,
And I read the beginning opener,
“It’s a new millenium, a new
age, a new culture.?
I read on till something caught
my attention,
Something I’ll quote for further
mention:
“More and more people find they
cannot live without?
Then it listed techno things
some couldn’t live without.
Cell phones and pagers,
Heck, I’m surprise they didn’t
mention CD players.
The world we live in today is
“wired?
One who’s not “in?with it might
get fired.
But after awhile I stopped and
wonder,
Is this all the world has to
offer?
Electro gags might be cool,
But who’s the fool,
To believe materialism is the
point to this world?
Is Macintosh Power book the thing
to be herald?
As a Christians I thought to
myself these things,
And wonder about what the world
is missing,
Without Jesus Christ, how much
are you “connected?
Without Him, life’s purpose is
vain and hectic!
So I close off the yearbook with
a sigh,
I’m so glad Jesus didn’t pass
me by.
By Jimmy Li
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Behind
the Poem:
Mark Keppel High School’s yearbook for
the 2000-2001 school year had the theme of “Wired?
It was probably three weeks after getting my year book
that I started to stop looking at it…after all, I’ve been
going through it randomly for days even before I graduated. Well, I decided to look at it one night to understand the reason
behind the theme, “Wired?
But as I was reading the first couple of pages in the
yearbook, a thought came to my mind about the real “connection?
that we really need in our lives: That of being “connected?
with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives.
Well, even though I was bored during that time in June,
my mind wasn’t completely gone!
Somehow the thought penetrated my mind that perhaps
materialism is a big factor to many of our dull and boring
moments in life. For
some reason, materialistic values dry us all up and we become
unappreciative. But
I think that something more than another Sony Play Station
or a new DVD player can fill this emptiness: Jesus Christ,
the Son of God!
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