The Scroll Of Counter-Curses (Book of Isaiah in 2013 baby baaaybaaaay!)

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----------------/The Scroll Of Counter-Curses (On The Sabbath)

Your conscience….churlishly chants “Charlatan!”

and justifiably as you curl on the cold stone of your temples of conviction

(in your mind) seated silently, in syncopated fashion quietly listening to, then

reading in reverse the words of Esaias, the curse, of your inveterate mistakes

your chest concave the path

of streaming tears. It is the surreptitious sins that sinister sneering at the divine

that damns us all

that damns us all, and your disposition as indifferent as it is desperate as it is deplorable;

despairing of doldrums disgusts me it disgusts me to witness this disastrous demise

of your once virile soul

your hollow eyes betray your fake smile your callous stare belies your friendly greeting

and your insistence that you never cavort with ghosts

or confide in the dead

because in your heart and dreams you approach the grave you see your body without

your ruddy cheeks and you wake up screaming running to the synagogue

chin pressed against chest defiant sneaking avoiding pleasantries

sitting before the scroll in the shadows

of the pillar in your closest proximity – another Sabbath seeking solace in secret

subconsciously summoning a savior to come near

And I unroll the scriptures of promise exorcising the hopeless

my condemnation dispersed liberally (reversing the curse)

on all who doubt, whose assurances dubiously rest on false gods

of drugs, addictions, greed, lies and exploitation of the poor of

covetousness, of self-animus of self-murder

let all eyes fashion themselves on me, the panacea the refuge of The Spirit

of Solace of The Lord because I have come that you might

trust…in me

get up off the floor of your pity and embrace your destiny of deliverance

that you might put your hands on your chest and feel a healthy heart beating again

and rub your wrists in disbelief at the absence of shackles

seeing in yourself, in others and the world a joy you never knew yet felt around you

from a distance

that you might let go of the past, because the bruises and scars

are all gone now

------------------Luke 4:15-21

And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.