To shepherds and sheep, to earth and heaven.
“A new and living way” with rights ignored.
In the love of the Father, mankind refreshed.
As if tomorrow began anew.
On what tomorrow will be.
Creeps in to cut another day into cliché.
Psalms 130. De profundis. OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD; Lord, hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it? For there is mercy with thee; therefore shalt thou be feared. I look for the LORD; my soul doth wait for him; in his word is my trust. My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch; I say, before the morning watch. O Israel, trust in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.
The carnival ride centrifuges waiting for my quarters.
At the front of Emanuel AME church.
UnWise Blood, brooding in the back, ran cold.
As Emanuel AME-“God with us”-black brother and sisters.
Wise Blood sought the unconditional, indiscriminate embrace of the Other.
A trajectory of bile aimed at neighbors on their knees.
Wooden cross braces could no longer bear its sacred weight.
New Life arose away from earth’s downward pull.
When credence for exclusion became Dogma from a bully pulpit.
When Evil handed UnWise Blood the means to destroy the spiritual growth of the Other.
A cartoon, a caliphate, a Caesar?
A scientific, non-universal apparatus feeding into majority opinions.
Pilate, the truth of power, asked.
I’ve come into the world for this: to give evidence about the truth.
With those words, he went back to the Foucaltians.
Poem © SallyParadise.com, 2015, All Rights Reserved; Scripture quoted: The Kingdom New Testament quotes by N. T. Wright as translated from koine greek.
Are these real moments real? Friends.
The bowl to eat from?
Then, they abandon me for higher ground?
Weak from wrestling with faith’s strong arm.
Where are the friends I knew?
The friends who knew me no matter what?
The friends who knew the conjunction between me AND me?