February 7-8, 2022

I Weep

I weep

so much feeling

so little heart

unchained emotion

hurls unbridled words

hate eagerly shoves love

to the edge, to the abyss

mercy so far removed

its beauty is scarce remembered

trip-wire tempers explode

throw hostility, derision and disdain

on any who dare dispute

indomitable opinion

ideologically perverted witness

saves none of those who die

how many must die

how many must be destroyed

by this emotion

by these words

by this hate

by these tempers

by this corrupted testimony

what soul has ever been led to God

by hate fueled words

what soul has ever felt God's love

beneath unrelenting anger

what soul has ever seen God's mercy

in upraised threatening fist

what soul can even know God's freedom

when tangled in chains of hate