Kit Kelen #1331 - every Bible is subtly different

1331

every Bible is subtly different

for godsbother

someone lives in there

carries the tune like a roof overhead

a bearded vengeance

shrill regret

time is its own terror

all over the shop inside

I like golden

and love!

no one can remember the turns

how we dreamt and held

dreamt some more

often lost, forsaken

some are climb down from the family tree

then there are the voices of birds

many are the conquests

villages razed

the kids enslaved

false idols

will you worship me?

our enemies spring up

there’s no imagining them

good for a footstool

stiffnecked

drop a few tablets

all magic to the melody

little angels are

here’s one spruiking the good news

and just for you this time – watch out!

I like the children’s brimstone and fire

cosy up with a vengeance

sweet dreams like a ladder

run up and down

let’s shall we take a peak

glass darkly

commandments from a mountain

prophecies pale thin air

yes, all the while a future guessed

and now the future’s come

recalibrate expectations

a church can be the book as well

done up in all the scenes

pulpit drones by, you’re away

ashes, dust, scabs, plagues assorted

winds you wouldn’t believe?

well, here’s what you get

once we were the smoke through the trees

all the one tribe

full of years

through ghastly dark

sun rises, goes down

and bottle green often

we see through the corpse light

no one lives in a museum

we till and the day goes under

so many inhabit the book

it’s where the ghosts have given up

perhaps you have flown before?

been saved?

resigned yourself to it?

this particular Earth is all stigmata

there is nowhere beyond the smoke of our trees

the first and the last

and come again?

we battle the bitterness

just to be ourselves

and by the book

how’s ours today?

it’s all the evil could ever be

just a manner of saying

thank God for God

but just one

a costume party

nothing is sacred in here