A Cry for Grendel?By Jessica Burley

August 18, 2010   |   Category: Poetry

Who will cry for Grendel as he sits all alone?
He watches man and is confused.
Who will cry for Grendel as he tries to understand?
He is afraid of what might happen.
Who will cry for Grendel?

Who will cry for Grendel as he is misunderstood?
He is different. He is ugly.
Who will cry for Grendel as he is rejected and outcast?
He is angry. He is hurt.
Who will cry for Grendel?

Who will cry for Grendel as he searches for answers?
What does living mean for someone who isn’t accepted?
He sees the world as nothing.
Who will cry for Grendel as his bitterness builds up? He gets bitter. He hates.
Who will cry for Grendel as he plots to kill man?
Who can stop him from anything ?
There will be no consequence for there is only him.
Who will cry for Grendel?

I will cry for Grendel as I see others like him.
They are different and are rejected.
I will cry for Grendel as they yearn to just be accepted.
They are hurt and don’t understand.
I will cry.

I will cry for Grendel as these others look for answers.
They are misled in the reasons why.
I will cry as I hear of them thinking life is empty.
They are told that life is just a vapor.
No one has a true purpose.
I will cry.

I will cry for Grendel for like him these children build up hate.
One just turns on the news.
see these young people act out in violence.
I will cry as people see them, like Grendel, as monsters.
I will cry for the Grendels of our world today.
How I long to just reach out and give them what they need more than anything else.
The one thing that was never given .
Love.

I will cry for Grendel and all the children today.
They are missing out on life.
I will cry as they are misguided and slowly fade away.
They need the guidance of people who truly care.
I will cry and hope to reach out.

Let us all cry for the Grendels in our lives.
Look at who they are and who they can be.
We need to cry for Grendel.
Let him know the truth.
We are not made just to “be“.
We were created for so much more.
We need to cry for life and know the purpose in it.

We need to want to cry for Grendel.
We need to help him understand.
We did not come from nothing, but made in the image of God.
We need to cry out and help them see.
We all have a purpose.
We might not fully understand how that can be.
But not even a sparrow, without His knowing, can fall from a tree.

We will cry when we realize the truth.
There are times of feeling rejected.
There will be times of hurt.
There may be times of feeling no one is accepting.
But realize that there is always Someone to turn to.
We will cry.

There is Someone who cares.
He cares enough to know the number of hairs upon our head.
There is Someone who reached out to the rejected.
He touched the “unclean” and loved the outcast.
There is Someone who put children on His knee.
There is Someone.

There is Someone who cried for the lost.
Someone who gives unconditional love.
LOVE is always on our side. He’s there to listen.
For God is LOVE.