gathering of radical sages

 

   

A GATHERING OF RADICAL SAGES

 

"That was the chief trouble with Jesus: He was a troublemaker.  So anytime you are a troublemaker and you rebel against the wrongs and injustices of society and organize against that, then what may happen to you is inevitable."

Benjamin Mays in My Soul Is Rested (1977)

 

 

Time was when blatherskite

made us nod our heads in unison;

hymns swam in our veins

as we watched indigo, cotton, cane, tobacco and corn kill our kin

with profits to spare, and then some

blatherskite made our brains its habitat,

our mouths its loudspeaker.

 

Preach truth in the closets of time.

Will us to defy the quicksand of alien beliefs.

 

Time is when blatherskite

and amoral pandemics

imperil motherwit,

tempt us to forgive we who are we,

abandon our vows to never forget the current killing of kin.

Blame blatherskite

for the melting of our minds.

 

Let us make us new rituals out of old verities.

Let us forge us esoteric weapons out of our antiquity.

 

Time will be when  blatherskite

will immortal  the children of  this world

as we underground into another,

tally with somber faces death that is not ours,

sing the inevitable songs as not-suffering comes.

 

 

"A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary."

Jeremiah 17: 12

 

 

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.            September 24, 2020

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