Are You Really The Christ?

"....or should we expect someone else?" – Matthew 11:3

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* dedicated to everyone in the struggle*


---------------/The Thoughts of John the Baptist Imprisoned/


Either Im doing everything right
or everything wrong
was Zechariah full of treachery and deceit, and the calling
in my heart falsely sanguine? The baptisms just public baths,
the Pharisees still narcissistic? Their presence just an attempt at entrapment…
Locusts, wild honey and camel skin
bouts of delusion – the onset of demonic possession
accompanied by shame and misery for my family hereafter?
Because infamy travels,
and all sorts of miscellany plague one's thoughts
handed food through a cell, confined and loss of privacy
as odor of my flesh becomes stench
as the coarse talk of prison guards becomes my night song
and I begin to dream of an alternate life
declining the call, traversing the river banks of some other prophet
oblivious of the need to repent
quite stoic to the notion of change for Israel
no risk and no sacrifice
reclining on hillsides with friends, watching clouds scatter
and the sunset
just a serene bland life, unchained
unbounded and unhurt by abusive captors
smugly deriving meaning from the haranguing of a hapless man
sentenced to imprisonment for doing the right thing
saying the right things
utilizing the wisdom he thought he had
before death was peering at him from behind these walls
for this one thing I am certain
but before I close my eyes for the last time...
someone please tell me "he didn't live his life in vain"



----Matthew 11:2-6-----------------
When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?"Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me."