Online Cruifixion

How does it happen
Not a word is spoken
Yet an online
Crucifixion
Happens
 
What’s the difference?
Between the mocking
Of the baying crowd
At Calvary
And the sniping
On social media?
 
The victim
The same
The pain
As real
 
Characters
Assassinated
By nameless voices
 
It’s all too easy
To mock
Behind words
Keyboards and mice
Modern nails
 
On crosses made
Online
Yet the agony
Is real
 
Tell me
Would the same
Have happened
If social media
Had been
On Calvary?
 
Stop
Think
Keyboards
Mice
Have no conscience
But we do
 
Virtual assassins
Just as dirty as the real ones
Take a look at ourselves
Would we like it?
Don’t dish out
What you can’t take
 
Thank God
He doesn’t judge
Pass sentence
With a keyboard
And a mouse
 
Heal this, Lord
Take us away
To the desert
Of the heart
Speak your love
In our lives
 
Take away
The knives
The pain
And love us
Once more