Crossed Off the List
Do you love to stand upright for the truth?
Or do you love it more,
bending to lies
At an acute angle forty five
Degrees of false moderation
permits you to have
an unhealthy tolerance for half-pint truth
Do you have a taste
for liquor moral malaise?
If so, be prepared
to be put on the Prohibition list
Falling off the righteous wagon,
honest to goodness
It will get you crossed off
the Untouchable list
Those blessed ones,
who withstood the bumpy road ride
In perfidious times,
they passed the temptation test
Don’t you know that swaying minds,
which move left to right,
is the belly roll of snake eyes
Rattle those dice, if you venom care to
Eat the burnt rice, if you saki dare do
Taking the Seventh Calvary hate charge,
the bayonet bullet dive ...
Is gonna get you crossed off the saintly list —
Let you receive a brimstone kiss
And when Resurrection time come,
you ain’t gonna be
abundance of charity missed
Lack of compassion is what
will get you crossed off the celestial list
And when Infinity shine time come,
those who loved
basking in dark light:
The iniquitous glow
of Black hole souls
will get the Paradise Lost
candle blow —
Inherit the wind
the empty bosom treasure chest
Mercifully so,
those diamond heart souls
will cease to exist ...
When they get crossed off the list
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2019
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