GOD HATES FLAGS

 

Flags that whip 

people into a frenzy

and asks them 

to sell their birthright 

for a pot of power

trying to be trendy

to cane their Abel

to strain what’s stable.

The civil war is

inside ourselves, 

the beam in our eye,

the need to die,

a misapplied label,

in anger unfurled, but

His kingdom is

not of this world.

You misread “the Word”

which is a person

not a book, look

you become a thief

a clueless crook

who steals what’s broken

and believes that

love is simply a token.

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