Elymas Blinded

-----------Acts Chronicles Chapter 13 - Elymas Blinded


Devoting all your years pandering to those
you think hold real power
but don't really
invincibility.....insoluble
is what you recite to yourself after you blow out the candles
and await the sun's rising
despicable.....wayward
you imprecate their absence in the face of all
that threatens
your way of life secure, the magic of gratification
the spells of hedonism
incantations of the charisma of validation from wealth and
prestige
that were never your own
balking at the idea there are things to which you might be
ignorant
that while you sought health, you gained decay
your pride in virtue was in actuality pride in corruption
finding no dignity in ignominy – no joy in misery
beauty ugly
loved hated
revered, but really mocked behind your back as a fraud
a liar
and youre getting older now and as a corollary
more set in your ways
though the specter of irreversibility casts a pall over you everyday
and the wisdom you spew is already sounding like garble
because you don’t know the stars anymore than the stars know you
and you don’t know a thing about the God you so often
take liberality in speaking for
and its sickening and its disgusting and
your suffering is making everyone else suffer
you advise with "Yahweh's Mandate" to give you money
angry
that some brand new philosophy can overtake and surpass
in enchantment the dialectic you’ve taken years
to painstakingly craft
because it has no substance or depth and
though your words often contradict the scrolls
and the words of Moses
this was about the girl you tried to love but never loved you back
and the opportunity to speak in the synagogue
your parents denied you
and the low marks you received in school because of low self esteem
its about not being married by the time youre 30
and seeing comely women walk by
curious about your strange garb
who were formerly never interested in you
but this gig is not about truth or its promulgation
its about attention
its about sad confusion
and Sergius Paulus really isn’t God
because he wont even lead you by the hand
but you earnestly
wish him to be, because he is powerful
and you imagine God to be that way too
in the same fashion you imagined vileness and confusion
being full of all guile, and of all deceit, a child of the devil,
an enemy of all justice
for so long
was a good thing
a prophet who saw nothing but his own selfishness






-----------Acts Chapter 13:5-12
And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the ministry. And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesu: Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, looking upon him, Said: O full of all guile, and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceasest not to pervert the right ways of the Lord. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him, and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, admiring at the doctrine of the Lord.