Workers of Iniquity

---------------------/Workers of Iniquity

Maybe some of us were meant to burn our lives

crackling wood, our lost  dreams soot emulsifying before

unresolved anger amber smoldering beneath plumes of smoke

of unrepentant sins ignited by flames of obstinacy

the moon is our cloak and the night sky has been our existential denial

of imminent judgment

when the shining revelatory light of destiny’s denouement

lays all things bare; maybe we shall come to see that skeletons

are just the charred remains of our soul bellwethers of finitude

designed to, always designed to

disintegrate and transmute into ashes and dust

ashes and dust

ashes and dust

perhaps we came to love weeping, and to cherish the expectation of gnashing our teeth

at some point

for despite our best efforts we couldnt douse our self-condemnation unflinching

through eating and drinking in the presence of the lord

with hearts distant, while worshiping form over substance (palliating)  

its not that Hell was fitted for us or some impediment obscured our path

to the strait gate, the narrow escape….

we just kept capitulating to our Pride until we lost the will to try

to seek Water

(and want more)

---------------------Luke 13:23-30

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.