Whose - Image and Likeness

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This was written after watching the news reports from Charleston, South Carolina. Each time such incidents occur I feel a cold shudder pierce the core of my being, an empty ache surround me.

Whose “image and likeness”


I ache as my spirit recoils, denies
the truth of what we have become.
…in his image and likeness..

surely there could not be
a “god” so disfigured, so ugly
as to hate its offspring,

send assassins into our midst,
fill our “prayers” with doubt and distress
sicken our spirits with the apathy of acquiescence,

abandon us to our acceptance of evil.
I grieve all death as it depletes
the fullness of our entwined spirits

drains the sap from our tree of life
denies a never formed branch existence
depletes the chorus of its fullness.

I weep in sorrow for the body of man
bleeding slowly from self inflicted wounds
blinded by the horror that it sees

unable to fulfill life’s simplest need
consumed with petty enmity and hate
children the sacrificial lambs of fate.

I am angry with this “disfiguring” god
enraged that he would tar us with this brush
paint caricatures of our souls

default dominion - this worlds debauchery.
I am appalled that men can do to men
such that the soul would favor hell

over living in the squalor of despair
seeking mercy from a god who’s disappeared.


John G. Lawless
6/19/2015

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