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Consider if You Will from Hill Top’s View - Sonnet 22
Consider if you will from Hill Top’s view,
The pause of man in motion’s frozen time,
The oddity of thought once caught, mis’strues
Reality in others’ warped design.
For how the monkeys’ chatter, chatter brings,
When purest lies are caged as “alter(ed) facts.”
The money-whiskeyed talking heads will sing
Their pipers’ song in “work makes free” distracts.
When words like “sov’reign self in God’s ordain,”
Are used to spit on victims “self-brought” blame.
Or words like “help themselves” despise contain,
While “least of these” forgotten without shame.
So quick to sell their moneyed-god with fear,
As from a well thrust sword, a cross appear.
The pause of man in motion’s frozen time,
The oddity of thought once caught, mis’strues
Reality in others’ warped design.
For how the monkeys’ chatter, chatter brings,
When purest lies are caged as “alter(ed) facts.”
The money-whiskeyed talking heads will sing
Their pipers’ song in “work makes free” distracts.
When words like “sov’reign self in God’s ordain,”
Are used to spit on victims “self-brought” blame.
Or words like “help themselves” despise contain,
While “least of these” forgotten without shame.
So quick to sell their moneyed-god with fear,
As from a well thrust sword, a cross appear.
Published 22nd May 2019
Author's Note
from a conversation I over heard in Starbucks yesterday - basically boiled down to "my God ordained sovereignty over myself gives me right the to condemn and despise everyone who does not believe the way I do... thank Jesus!" "work makes free" in the last line of the second quatrain is from the German "Arbeit Macht Frei" a rather famous gate adornment in history - look it up!
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22nd May 2019 4:42pm
Wow - the emotion was palpable in this one, Hepcat! I can so relate, and the image adds another dimension to it as well.
Thank you - there's a relatively noted story from early Christianity (the Desert Fathers) that ends with an Angel's admonishment to one of the Fathers - "Judge no one before God does!"
If I may bastardize another famous quote, from Doc Holliday from the Movie Tombstone - "it appears (Christian) hypocrisy knows no bounds..."
If I may bastardize another famous quote, from Doc Holliday from the Movie Tombstone - "it appears (Christian) hypocrisy knows no bounds..."
