Throw Away Bathwater, Not Baby

Gratitude attitude grow
Peacock attitude away throw
Though temptations line up in a row 

Pointless, heartless any soul you to hurt
Under no circumstances invective blurt
Because so doing grows you curt

Achieving trinkets, reaping limpets
As you blow trivial trumpets
Deriding, riding, restless strumpets

In your city where contempt
Fashionable in an objectional attempt
To parade low grade hair unkempt

For aeons under neon lights
Illuminating prudish, brutish fights
Meant to ignore the snore of plights

Street kids endure under the watch
You observe at close quarters to catch
Miscreants and recidivists who latch

Onto corruption
To catalyze the eruption
So blatantly witnessed in the disruption

Probity suffers as wafers
Vanish into thin air when quaffers
Poke fun at a senile souse who suffers

Ravages of loneliness
You regret in the context of silliness
Egrets and open secrets endure as holiness

Suffers its biggest reverse
To learn men of the collar deemed so averse
To child molestation in vows so diverse

Embarrass your church
Leaving doubting Thomases in the lurch
As for meaning and direction they search

Wondering if hypocrisy in this crisis
Should call and recall paralysis
To promote or demote dialysis

As a cure for the malaise
Believers suffer in the craze
That undermines set standards in a maze

In which a plethora of anguish
You bear as you strive to distinguish
Reality from fiction. Your faith don’t extinguish

Or else you throw baby together with bath water
In the church and in your quarter
To deny you opportunities for malfeasance to alter.

Copyright © John Sensele | Year Posted 2018

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