June 4-7, 2023

Touchless

(Romans 1:18-32)

life does not touch them, these dead

who breathe, who walk, are corpses

forsaking God, have been forsaken

careless of His grace will not find it

wild carousing their darkened revels

will not love the High and Holy One

hope denied by violent shouted “No!”

drowns beneath deadly grasping shade

and they, careless of what could free

despise and revile it, trample it as dirt

life does not touch them, these dead

their calloused souls so long abandoned

could not care though long convinced

their revels dance within halls of death