A Day of Epiphany

A menagerie of tear gas

Slips past no mask

Slips past blank stares

Mourning democracy, we once had

Laws disintegrate to dust

As newscaster cameras are stomped on ‘til dusk

Fear mongering with Confederate flags

As angry glares break through glass

Drowning the breath of principled discourse

Freedom bells ring no more

All that keeping score

Pain sunken and distorted lure

A dangerous cocktail of politicized musk

 

Irony delivered us a day of epiphany

Reality stung with murder hornets abuzz

Oh, how stunned I was to succumb

Paralyzed by doubt in uncertain rotundas

Yet Wednesday marks Epiphany feast day

What would capital HIM say to him?

He whose rallying and jeering led to a Capitol scene

The morning star planted this seed of distrust

            in a garden once

I’m in dismay, what would Jesus say?

We are divided and then reunited

Shall we choose right or wrong:

Divine intervention?

Or divisive insurrection?

One pushes for introspection

While the other cast the first stone

 

The A team fell for the lie that truth dies

Deviated from the path of righteous cause

Inserted hatred over compassionate

            for temporary applause

And traded devotion to a Holy God

            for worship of a false God  

Traded our country for confusion and chaos

Presidents are no kings and queens

WE put them in and take them out

Is this not a precedent we can agree upon?

 

Let truth out way deception and give way to integrity

Let justice out way inequity and give way to virtue

Resist the fires of indignation that separate you from me

So that liberty may prevail to emancipate you and me

Emancipate us on all sides from oppressing ourselves

Emancipate the voices of democracy  

Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash

Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash