Too Late

TOO LATE

If you do not include yourself as a sinner redeemed
even if you look to the law and break them all

or even one. If you do not look upon the son
as the one who saves your soul from the second death.

If you wiggle and squirm shouting agendas until your blue
in the face, armed with a suit of armor and a tie.

If you buy into the mob’s mentality of immorality,
keep your birthday suit loose and ready to wear.

If you pinch your fellow man until he’s black and blue,
unrelenting from the uterus to Timbuktu.

If you can look in the mirror with a polished sneer
and see something good in your pufferfish looks.

Don’t worry (pat on head) Hush (stroke on back)
although when you close your eyes of lead

the prison bars that divide you from the light
with brazen clarity, might cause enlightenment

too late…

Kim Rodrigues © 2018
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018


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Date: 3/5/2018 10:35:00 AM
Only a uterus does a woman possess, Which is what to you I must confess; Purpose serve; Vive and verve; God different bodies each sex did bless.
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Date: 3/5/2018 10:43:00 AM
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