What Will You Do -
WWYD
Let us wield the hammer
soften it with truth
drive the nails
into the box
imprison them with
brimstone blocks.
Fear of God
and parlor tricks,
no straw inside
the crumbling bricks
to support the
mitres weight.
Hollow tubes
of echoed past
dulling in the
chambers vast
empty and
flamboyant flash.
Reach beyond
the puppet stage
allow belief
to come of age.
The message
hasn’t changed -
just men
who will not let
Him come again
To sit upon
a rumpled throne
and walk as He did –
all alone -
in love’s repeating
prayerful dawn.
12/5/2014
for Regina Riddle – Didactic Poetry Contest
“He that believes in me, the works that I do shall he so also, and greater works than these shall he do…”
Copyright © John Lawless | Year Posted 2014
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