skin for skin ..

skin for skin

trade ya

see the difference for myself

'cause i suspect

living in your skin 

would denude my world

then maybe

skin deep

would take on a new colour

   black 

      would explode my spectrum

humbling arrogance ..

who are you to question my wisdom in your ignorance   ?

prepare yourself .. 

I have some questions for you to answer ..

where were you when I envisioned the Earth   ?

tell me, which architect designed it, and who was its surveyor   ?

on what was it founded   ?

who set the keystone in place 

   while the stars looked on and the angels cheered   ?

who restrained the oceans when they burst the matrix   ? 

   who wrapped them in billowing clouds

      and clothed them in the darkness   ?

   who cradled their movements   ? 

have you ever called forth the morning 

   given rise to the dawn 

      that tells the night to leave 

         and to take the violent wickedness that hides in its darkness along with it   ?

did you ever locate the source of the sea 

   have you dived to its deepest point   ?

have you faced Death 

   stood in the portal of the Shadow of Death   ?

could you spread your arms to embrace the girth of the Earth   ?

can you tell me - when the light emerges, where does the darkness go   ?

do you know their addresses   ?

   but of course you do   ! 

   you were there before their creation and you know all this already, I'm sure .. 

..

have you looked into the quarries where snow and hail are mined   ? 

where should I go to discover the home of light   ?

in which location should I look to find where the east wind lives   ?

who dug valleys for the downpours 

and who laid out a flight path for the lightning   ?

who redirects the showers to fall on dry ground and encourages the grass   ?

who gives birth to the rain   ?

who is the mother of hail and ice and freezing water   ?

is it you that tells the stars which road to take 

   and who to travel with   ?

do you organize their families or tell them where to live   ?

 

did you order the universe or design the Earth   ?

is it your voice that breaks the clouds for rain and sparks light to fly across the sky   ?

tell me, how does your heart speak and why does your mind reason   ?

can you count the clouds   ?

can you make it rain when there is no water and the land turns to dust   ?

do you know where to find food for the pup and the cub and the crow's children when they cry out to God from an empty belly   ?

do you   ?

can you   ?

who   ?

where   ?

how long   ?

how far   ?

when   ?

how   ?         ..

tell me then

   you who challenge my ways

      and know my thoughts

   you who calls me to account

.. answer me

   if you can  .. .

                                              a muse on Job 38

you can't tell just by looking ..

you can't tell
   just by looking
   or listening
not much has changed
   on the face of it

   from a surface view

but a killer moves yet
snaking very long fingers across the compass
leaving 6-foot Holes all along the way
   like footprints
hellish portals       almost

and planet Earth totters       slightly
drunken       like
   on the blood of the Holes
as Sheol opens her rapacious jaws ..
   insatiable beast

you can't tell like that
but       there are spaces
   Holes in the air
      where our neighbour stood       just yesterday
..

and we want numbers

people reduced to math
Images digitized
trends
and death trails
rates
and percentages
and graphs ..
..


that hawk soars
silhouette against the darkening skydrop
welcome prop for a life that seems diminished
diminishing       somehow

soar bird       soar!
remind me that my view
   is but a view
that life has met the terrors of evil before
   and limped away to live another day

and too .. even if we perish
   at the bloodied hands of this Serpent-With-Many-Crowns
we will stretch our life out
   through
   into
      life in another form
         renewed
         refreshed
         re-energized
            by the One who will one day vanquish this beast
               along with every other beast ever       ever
and we will all walk together
   in new Life
   at peace with our world
   our planet at peace with us
      now released from the frustration of decay
            freed!
               in the wake of the glory of all God's children
..

you can't tell just by looking
but the Life that gives life gives life
and there is life
and there will be life
and all will be well
and God will be all
   in all

amen

safe in the arms ..

safe in the arms of Jesus
safe inside these walls
safe from the world's diseases
lock out their woeful calls

I'm ok I'm ok I'm ok
safe inside my walls
they can't get in to where I am
sanitized, and I got Jesus

got my fam, I'm  okay
got my friends I'm ok
served food to the poor
donated too .. I am good, I'm ok
..

this one person came up to me
dirty, so unclean
held out a hand, cut in the palm
gave him 5 to see him leave
   (he looked familiar somehow) ..
..

read my Bible e'er day
say prayers to God above
have pics of Jesus, blonded hair
tithe so people know I love
..

people need to get saved !
John 3:16 and all
better do it now 'fore it's too late
get caught-up when that trumpet calls !

nothing can't touch me now
safe in Jesus' arms
drive by those heathen e'er day
druggies and hoes fo sho
..

I live my life by the ten commands
thou shalt and thou shalt not
jump up and worship, raise my hands
holy spirit I'm sure I got

safe in the arms of Jesus
dem infected heathen sinners
   goin' to hell !
don't know why they won't join us
guess they're just too
   blind to tell ..

pic's on social media
serving them poor-poor
use lots of sanitizer
so I don't get no sores

safe in the arms
thank you Jesus !