EARS TO HEAR-a poem 6-25-16

EARS TO HEAR-a poem    6-25-16

As I stand here in this multi thousand dollar

Hand-crafted gold oak pulpit

Wine-red carpet beneath my feet

The choice of color being the cause

Of two good Christian women

Refusing to speak to each other

For ever and ever, amen

With a multi thousand dollar screen behind me on the wall

And a multi thousand, yes, many multi thousands

Heating and cooling system treating the air

Around us so that it will be just like Galilee

And a multi thousand dollar microphone

Slipped on my ear so

All can hear me regardless of how softly

I speak in dramatic tones to convince

Soft-bottomed people on soft-cushioned pews

That they should follow Jesus

I preach about Jesus standing with dirty feet

In a dirty robe on a dirty hillside

Calling out “Let those who have ears

to hear, hear.”

JRMcF

johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com