we cherry pick verses
to justify who we will
vote for in elections,
we conduct sword drills
to buck up our lives
of anger and opprobrium,
we call literal and infallible
any words which shape you
into the hateful deity we
long so deeply to worship,
and so ignore
the lullabies of grace,
the songs of hope,
the building bricks of justice,
the whispers of welcome,
the embraces of love
which are the scarlet threads
woven into that Word
who lived among us.
(c) 2024 Thom M. Shuman
Venmo: @Thom-Shuman
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