Thinner Shields

Thinner Shields

("Stop taking advantage of foreigners, orphans, and widows. Don't kill innocent people. And stop worshiping other gods." Jeremiah 7:6)

Their shields are thinner than skin,
their protection evaporated into the diminished air
where they live without defenses
while people play with presidential images,
preferences,
idols and monetary enhancements.

Where can you find the invisible,
will you take the time?
Where do the most innocent dwell,
will you tell the governors, the rulers,
the emperors and CEOs that
their power is worthless spent on
their statues and legacies

while bread (not cake) sits unbroken on
too many church altars,
while they pray away demons they have
conjured on Youtube to agitate the masses
and whistle the dogs to devoted attendance?

Samaritans help before the devoted do,
and centurions ache before Pharisees for
a friend of the faithful.

Say the word and God will come winged on the dawn,
(if the worship leaders doesn't miss a note)
put the ushers in ties, inspect their scent,
don't offend someone who might not like a brain
less developed, front row and center. And we wonder
where the Spirit went.

Let your skin meet their skin, let your tears mingle with theirs,
uncage the lions in your brain that you thought you had tamed,
and let the lamb who reigns with wounds and weeping
be the very God of very God

in every prophecy and vision again.