Beware the Judas Priest
Beware the Judas Priest
Trust and obey this preacher did say,
Down on your knees for forgiveness, now pray,
Confess your misdoings, repent of your sins,
But lack of due reverence caused the plight that you’re in.
You’re morally just but have fallen from grace,
Unable to stand in the light of his face;
Judgemental, aggressive, condemning, unfair,
These are the traits that have taken you there,
Alone in your nightmare, unable to see
The pain your behaviour occasioned for free;
Selfish, dogmatic, conceited and blind
To the harm that your actions have caused to mankind.
Sit back on your laurels, examine your prize,
Did the wreckage you’ve caused really need all those lies?
You held so much trust in the palm of your hand,
No one could have guessed just what you had planned
You smiled in the foreground and judged from behind,
Laughed at the simple, the answers they’d find.
So now that your mischief has come to an end,
Can the damage you’ve caused to those souls ever mend?
Can your rule of injustice be followed by peace?
Will you really relinquish you hold and release
The memories you’ve kidnapped, the traditions you’ve squashed,
All the hope that’s been stripped and the innocence lost?
Will you wake up one day and look back with remorse
At the carnage you’ve caused in the name of our Lord?
Copyright © Heather Buxton | Year Posted 2014
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