weeping continues

Christmas 1 - Year A

weeping continues

for children lost

oblivious selves

bloody atonement

surface unkindness

dismissed refugees

death by hunger

winning at any cost

short-lived honors

over-time jobs

compromised health

invisible babes

rote praise

surprise unacknowledged

dimness of imagination

weeping continues

in heaven

as it is on earth

unconsoled

self-selected out

exorcised out

angelic weeping

wracking sobs

diminished we-feeling

suffering raised

expectation lowered

for one and all

refugee wandering

away and back

and on and on

weeping continues

a sad-eyed dog

never petted enough

after excitement wanes

turning once and twice

three times and four

curls in manger hay

awaiting a next influx

of lives and life

each as holy

as holy can be

receiving a gift

of just enough

in a greedy world

and then its gone

weeping continues

in the face of green

garlands galore

in spite of hymns

high in glory

in preparation of hope

living within

in reaction to hope

dashed aborning

incomplete

tears dammed

break lose

flooding decision-makers

in sorrow

weeping continues

personal identity issues

arrive and arrive some more

having danced with race

and gender and ethnicity

sexual orientation and immigrants

we go around

variation upon variation

until outsides are exhausted

and so we weep

in prelude to inside segregation

loyalty oaths

creedal formulas

demanded

enforced

weeping continues

inhumanity to you

inhumanity from you

inhmanity around you

weeping continues

lies are told

bullshit grows

truth is avoided

weeping continues

experience begins

literalism chimes in

integration continues

weeping continues

weeping

continues