Thin Lines

I Graters are for preparing meals Not for hearts Diaries, memoir notes are private Not for phoney pastors Sometimes a grated heart tells horrors endured because of pastors II Lines between advice & control, love & hate As lines between light, twilight, night are Very thin How does an innocent churchgoer learn Demands from church to lie, hide, break up Are lines crossing from Teaching to Orders Disguised as from The Holy Spirit? III From behind the lines, I see While carrying my shredded heart Looking for bandaids, some nurse Doctors don't come to our homes What with power cuts, water disruptions There will be no healing. Or slow healing. We hope to find a nurse practitioner Who also knows we need her prayers