September 17, 2003
Ignorance of Grace
(to Martin Cauchon et al)
you claim victory in the midst of your defeat
never aware of what you have lost by your gain
unrealizing that the One against whom you rail
is unchanging despite your protest of
His word that has established all that is
which also gives to you your breath and blood
yet you deny His grace, His law, His love
feeling by His mercy too close constrained
seeking freedom where all roads freely followed
we may become what we are becoming
your grand words of equality and fairness
very sweet and pleasant but still lies
despite your flowery sentiment
mask the ugly face of humanism as
narrow-minded in its blind broadness
as you claim is God in His open grace
Whose love knows no end
but that which you have chosen
you enter a door our parents never knew
seeking life and, shocked, find only death
in that day you will weep to God
for the mercy you once scorned for “freedom”
but far too late for you and those you led
away from their Creator
while there is breath there is hope
reconciliation received is forever ours
once breath has gone there is despair
reconciliation refused is forever lost