Agreements Are Shams
Agreements are Shams!
Agreements are shams that the wise call a shakedown,
the wisest trust conflict, will work what’s at hand.
Agreements exist when folks (forced to) are civil.
Identical twins have mutations, evolve!
What miracles might stop, experience kicks off -
inclines some to ‘free,’ doppelgängers to ‘rhyme’
whose hearts aren’t a prison sans shotgun engagement,
unfortunate wedlock (“Love’s loved!” all opine).
Conflict can prove glue for relational breakdown
and help, frictions eased, to build trust that’s not canned.
To seek pains avoidance is soul-sucking drivel
for friendships, untested, are sure to devolve.
How likely are friends with porks’ snouts in a feed trough
to think less of pleasures and more of new crimes?
For peace is an afternoon’s nap, an arrangement,
for sides to seek gain with opponents supine.
Please trust that I’ll trust you until I don’t trust you,
will love you as well, till I don’t anymore,
and look to be fair as I feel your affection!
The Golden Rule’s Chapter and Verse (proves my sin),
Is faith as I practice it, faith or convenience?
Without Grace, I’m toast, and in more ways than one.
Grace makes ALL one’s brother, your father (and mother),
all siblings, need Grace! Faith should grok that as well.
Humility seems to be ripe for a rescue!
If ‘Truth’ is you’re saved, how can ‘Grace’ be your door?
You ‘know’ you’re entitled, Christ’s Blood’s your protection,
it’s His Grace or yours? Faith (not acts) posts the win!
The acts God inspires (where we act) is man’s brilliance,
His Glory, our flame. Just a flash, and we’re done!
If faith, that God’s God (and I’m not) helps me smother
what’s vain, if that’s right, may trust surf ebb tide’s swell!
Brian Johnston
18th of March in 2021
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