The Price Of Fame

Common Sense Commentary: I pastored for 36 years and preached or taught well over 10,000 sermons, lessons, speeches and had several million conversations in that time.
Of course, it is expected there would be misunderstandings, misquotes, and bad memories among those tens of thousands of people. However, to quote someone in the opposite to their meaning, or misquote intentionally,or make up a quote is "perversion" of the truth. I wrote this poem ten years after retirement.

The Price Of Earthly Fame

A belated cost of one's person fame
Of a well known and honorable name
Left behind in some distant place and day
Is a painful price to pay in a perverted way.

When you have gone on and time has passed
The bill plus interest is demanded at last
When former friends or others you knew
Use your name to prove their own point of view.

They quote your words like holy writ
To prove their point with tears and wit
They swear you said it, they heard you state it
Tho you never thought it but in fact you hate it.

For earthly fame of wealth and power
It may not taint their famous hour
But for the man who delivers God's Word
Quote him evil is by God's ear heard.

How ironic it is.... this price of fame
You see, fate and time know but one great name
And grind to dust all else but His
Who made the worlds, Who was and IS. RB
Pass It On.