Accused

    Ha-satan, in Hebrew,

    means, "the accuser",

    without which, it seems,

    evil would not exist;

    but before you mount

    and are thrown from

    that noble steed, hear me out:

        Most of our culture's focus

        on finger-pointing comes from

        the perspective of moral high ground.

            You broke the rules that were set up,

            so I must point to your failures,

            in order to maintain order.

                The original prince of accusation (in Job),

                however, pointed toward holiness

                as it was manifested in another

                and decried it as human impossibility.

            How much accusing in our world

            is done by those afraid

            of their shadow selves,

        who must bifurcate life and assume

        their own worst in the choices

        and motivations of others,

        because hope lies still-unwrapped?

    What ha-satan fails to understand

    is that every human expression

    of anything resembling grace

    is nothing more or less

    than divine presence;

    and that is a gift which God

    chooses to extend ad infinitum.

Photo by Lee Lindsey McKinney

© 2015 Todd Jenkins