No Standing Ovation For Grandstanding

Don’t provide a culinary delight On a gourmet’s table like a goose Instead, stand up for just causes and alight Your upward mobility flight of stairs like the Indian grey mongoose To strut your agility to take on and slay cobras Which in one form or another your tranquil life attempt to plague As verbal problems in Algebra You crack with ease in the league Where mathematical equations you munch By the dozen to feed the appetite That taps and harnesses the curiosity branch In your bid to develop the tripartite Arrangement in which your soul flourishes and nourishes to while away time Productively when from mundane platitudes You take leave, preferring instead to climb The ladder of conciliation and reconciliation on platforms where positive attitudes Couched in genuine concern you reinvent Curiosity in techniques that slay animosity Embedded in foibles that vent Frustrations in ways that conflate religiosity With mumbling and mouthing nonsense That the less pious you treat Like lesser Christians whose sense Of spiritual uplift you greet With disdain and reluctance Although Jesus preaches accommodation Of sinners and backsliders without grandstanding askance That salvation mission meets without any standing ovation.