STILL UNITED-A POEM [Sat, 12-3-22]

 REFLECTIONS ON FAITH & LIFE FOR THE YEARS OF WINTER: STILL UNITED-A POEM [Sat, 12-3-22]

 

We are united now only in decline

that eager bunch with hopeful faces

turned up to the sunny heaven

ready to receive our marching orders

straightway from the God of righteousness

Laughing together at the demons

in their sluggish attempts to grab our ankles

Singing of how we would overcome

not knowing how distant some day could be

trusting that the arc still bent toward justice

Now we stand amidst the rubble

   those few of us yet left

as punishment for our easy expectations

the sun no longer beaming from heaven

but rampaging from out the fiery furnace

fueled by handbaskets full of sin

where even Shadrach would recant

Somehow, though, still trusting

in each other

me in hope

that you still hope

 

John Robert McFarland