“Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy?” (Is 55:2)
3 Choices
Yet from the darkness
the Accuser of the Brethren
still beckons to
the mind of man
—the window of the soul—
with new uniforms
flags and slogans
majority approval
possibilities for advancement
glittering job securities
insurance and benefits
for old age
in return for
one’s own soul
but for that stirring
in the heart—
God’s humble servant—
and that candle
of conscience
showing us fabricated golden calves
for what they are—
false gods
in deference to the One—
the Nameless—the Way—
requesting of us an
obedience transcending
a majority’s obedience to
violence, power, control
and that new law of reverence
not written on tablets of stone
but hearts to flesh
a choice—the butterflies
of Maidanek