Choking God
Would I cut your lips away
Because of the words you speak?
With your glass half full, some see it as bleak.
What of your eyes,
Are they to be plucked?
Where you see fairness, some see as corrupt.
Watch what you say!
Sever your tongue!
Examine words before they leave your lungs.
Cover your ears.
Someone's speaking the truth.
The olds don't listen. Blame it on the youth.
A shot in the distance.
One side is down.
There are some who cheer even more, who frown.
What is the offense?
What is to be gained?
A voice now silent that went against the grain.
Sever my hands then,
For I hold what’s true.
With might and gentle placement, I'll lay bare for you.
Can you hear the cadence?
Do you feel hands to throat?
We’re choking God out, and all He wrote.
To love one another,
As His son did to all.
Winter, spring, summer, fall.
Untwist the tongue.
Let the scales fall from eyes.
See with your own those, in disguise.
For my tongue speak prayers.
My eyes, truth finders in Him.
And hands placed together all, no longer grim.
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