Double Standard

The push for equality crossed slack tide.

Intolerance of the intolerant became tolerable.

The gossipers were gossiped about.

Hypocrites.

The Lurking Monster

Peace

Utopia

What we’ll stop at nothing to have

Conflict

Dystopia

What we’ll do anything to avoid

Peace easy on our minds, bodies

Conflict causes stress hormones to flood our systems

So we keep whatever would create conflict secret
Hidden in the best vault we can think up

Until the monster lurking just beneath the waves

Surfaces

What would have been a skirmish becomes a drawn out war

To win back what’s been yanked away in conflict's jaws

Human

My children, I weary

Of your tantrums of signs
Fits of petitions

You are feverish

Let me heal you

Play with, not parallel

Interact with your brothers and sisters

Your cousins and second cousins

Rather than shout words of condemnation

Are they not my beloved creation?

Did I not call this ‘good’?

Look past the speck in their eyes

See the human

See my image

Or is the lumber in your eye too large?

Are you blinded?

Let me spit in the dirt
And wipe your eyes clean

Hope

A night not calm, not bright

Evil roams the earth
Creation shrouded in darkness

Its groaning fills the night

Those in Love’s image made, suffer

A newborn cries out
The voice pierces darkness’s veil 

Evil winces, shudders

Creation smiles
It remembers Eden

Hope is born of dust
Breathed into human form

Creation’s walk in darkness

Sees the light of dawn

Hope walks the earth

Knows suffering with a human heart

Feels pain, grief, betrayal
Hope weeps bitterly

Those in Love’s image made pierce Hope

Blood pours out

Evil smirks

Hope lay entombed 

But Hope cannot be buried for good
The sun rises 

The stone rolls
Grave, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting?  
Now Love's victory is certain

Humility

True humility.

Not self-deprecation,

But acceptance.

No, even more.
Genuine appreciation!

Of God’s work through you.

Of God’s work NOT through you.

And seeing no difference between these things.

Ephesians 5

Daddy,

My foot fell asleep again.

Wake up, feet,
It's light out now.

Time to get up.
Walk.

Love.

Respirator

YHWH

Yahweh

A breath

It can't be said

For breathing is something done

Life giving

A part of being

To cease breathing

Is to die

But there are respirators

Materialism

Self service

Jealousy

Pride

Ignorance

Wrath

Inject false breath

Into seizing lungs

That reject real air