Sunday, March 1, 2015

Rising Flood

Jeremiah 6:14 (MSG)
My people are broken—shattered!—
    and they put on Band-Aids,
Saying, ‘It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.’
    But things are not ‘just fine’!
 
Camp NaCoMe's Upper Lake
Rising Flood

Outrage's anger causes
her to rise every time
a crime is committed.

Justice's wheels, when they
roll down a path of fairness,
have a way of coaxing her
back into her seat;

but when those wheels become
a grindstone that obliterates
any possibility for hopeful journey,
she will not stand down,
come hell, high, or any other water.


© 2015 Todd Jenkins

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