Prayer has been cheapened by the times.
We avoid the pews where fools recline
and bow their heads to fake news
while making money off government grants
for mega churches which promise service
to the poor and neglected,
the hungry and disaffected;
yet, vote against every effort to create
a more humane and equitable State.
And, where women fall for the line they are Eve
and evil to want sex
without admitting how complex
the use of birth control can be
when science is ignored and derided
that men can have all decided
in their favor. Their can be no life
when no egg is released to be indoctrinated
by men of the cloth who refuse to be sated
in their own desires. Instead, women are mired
in deceit and forced to bear the loss of self
to men’s control, if they want to feel blessed.
Enough of this unholy state
which calls on God’s will to compensate
for their failure to mirror God’s true grace.
Prayer has been lost amid the fray
of those who still kneel to pray
to overcome others who fail to tow the line,
and pay politicians to do their will.
Too many souls have learned to be still
while lies are told and children instilled
with false ideology and true evil;
and their very lives lost to thoughts and prayers
cheapened by the politics of fear.
The path to Heaven has disappeared
as we live through hell right now, right here.
