Checking everyone else’s pockets
Whilst never learning to manage one’s own
But expecting every worker
To share their pay
Simply because you watched them work
Is the etiology of a fool
Thinking you can have without earning
Believing
You deserve simply for being
Is an ideology not even the Almighty agrees with
Sending Paul to tell us all
Those who refuse to work are also refusing to eat
Even the free gift of salvation requires working faith
Just admit you’ve accepted a kiss from laziness
So we can at least say you “worked” on your honesty
Just because society says you can have it all
Doesn’t mean they aren’t lying
You don’t even know how to help your neighbor
Because a predator convinced you
To believe
Better me than him
A collective split into individuals
Scratching and clawing their way to the top
Just so one can say, “I have the billions.”
Ostracized from their family
To satisfy a hunger that is everlasting
I bet they’re still hungry
Stuffing their faces with plates too big for them
Indulging in pleasures too heavy to carry
Why is it that we become stupefied
When the venomous snake says, “Ooo, you fine?”
Why do we know not to enter the lion’s den
But think we handle men or women?
I despise when they refer to us as animals
But it’s hard to deny when that belly rumbles
And the appetite
Has you biting a thigh… or two…
… Or two hundred
Never being satisfied
Like the victory being one number off the roll of the die
Or just barely missing the ridiculous amount of screentime
Why are we so comfortable being lulled to sleep?
I see why God calls us sheep
So grateful for a Shepherd to take all the responsibility
Like we aren’t still going to face accountability
We are shameless doing all things shameful
And combating anyone who dares to whisper
“Maybe this is wrong.”
Like letting psychos sell guns to psychos
Who take aim at psychos
Who retaliate like psychos
Excuse me-
Like letting gun manufacturers sell guns to terrorists
Who take aim at alliances
Who retaliate like advocators of genocide
I’m sorry-
Like letting local warehouses sell guns to unstable people
Who take aim at unarmed citizens
Who retaliate like victims
Or maybe-
Letting egotistical politicians have access to nuclear weapons
That can destroy entire regions
Setting off World War III
It amazes me at how anyone looks at this world
And thinks, “Progress.”
When humans haven’t changed one bit
But this is the etiology of a fool
I’d expect such a person to never notice
I’d expect them to look above and say,
“At least I’m not the one of these other stanzas.”
Like God didn’t send James to inform us
Stumbling in one sin makes you guilty of all sins
It was never just seven
It was never just actions
Or did you think you were safe in your thoughts?
Any who look to sin with admiration commits it in their heart
You read this poem
Thinking
I’m speaking about you and not me
But it’s about we
No one escapes fallacy
Especially, me
I wouldn’t have died for a single one of your sins
Which is why I must shut my mouth and listen
There is still too much to learn
So, I close with this parting gift:
The best of us lifts the one next to them up
Just because they want to
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