Why Has Your Love?
(“Learn to do good. Seek justice. Arrest oppressors.
Defend orphans. Plead the case of widows.” Isaiah 1:17)
Why has
your love become tethered to
abusive egos? Why has your love become grounded
after it flew so high? Why has your
love insisted
blood will be spilled when Jesus returns?
Why has your love
resisted
the tears that were once cried for you?
Why have
you not dried tears that now crease the face
of the lonely one who is
living as a shadow?
Why has your love expired
like winter leaves mulched to black?
Did you disable our friendship,
did you discover it melted in the first
spring thaw?
Did you pledge allegiance to the next
despot who promised your prayers would be answered
if you only kept out the riff raff like me?
And
still I know my complaint is full of
privilege and faint echoes of hoarded measures
against ruin. And still I know my fainting heart
has never beat on its own. And still the phone remains
silent.
Why is
your chair empty? Why are your sleeves still
rolled down?
Why can’t you hear the silence
between each beat of my heart?
Why have you left me alone?
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