Equilibrium / Revelation Renaissance Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr

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__EQUILIBRIUM__

...of the beginning
where influence,
affluence,
and prestige
upheld its worth
in colored auction,
massaging the backs
of arrogance,
vouchsafing those
who laid down their souls
in scorched cotton fields
with leaves hung on stems,
hosting thorns
bloody sharp as nails,
pricking and piercing
sweltered burnt flesh,
and the twitching nerves
of their subluxed spines,
over and over again -
for pennies...and-
three meals of scrap
from the night befores feast;

so malignant these actions
as well as so many others
that have bastardized dignity,
harmony...Wisdom
all stark violations
of Christ's humankind,
for so many scores of centuries,
sins of great bombasticness,
a raping of heart,
death of the spirit;
and 'prejudice',
the paradigm for shame,
viewing color and culture
with myopic eyes,
while churning the wombs
of innocent souls
until judgment come,
and time, space and tomorrow
be no more;
where upon the time arrives -



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__ REVELATION RENAISSANCE__


When Heaven divides and descends
rearing its Golden Seals of Judgment,

separating good from evil
separating wise from wisdom
separating Truth from lies
separating Faith from fear
separating need from greed
separating love from lust
separating face from mask
separating pride from hubris
separating action from talk
separating peace from promise
separating War from conflict
separating mortals and souls,

and, as one people we witness
hate be hung high
on the last tree standing,
in the shape of a cross
turned upside-down
and impaled into-
the very last square
of soil remaining,
for any other way
would be sacrilege,
to the One who hung
suffered and died
for us all!

And not far from this,
after the Heavens ascend
and have re-united
there be renaissance, as brightly
as the tallest of lighthouse beacons-
symbolizing the Dove's light of Wisdom,
an aural dimension where Souls are one,
where fairness be of great significance,
upheld and respected
for the sake of equality
and mortal justice.....
cultural equilibrium,
equality, balance...Pax!

For the sake of Forever
and forever's sake, the same, by God.


FjR-MMXX