Mumbo Jumbo

I dont believe in your mumbo jumbo
Your easy salvation
Your fake contrition
No crime beyond the reach of repentance
A trick to obtain unearned
Grace
Humans are sinners
Grace cannot be earned?
Then for mercy's sake
Withhold your hell
We cannot be burnt.

When the crimes are ones
We must commit
When it isnt in our power to just
Omit
Our best behavior arrived at not by kindness through process of reasoning
That we should do to others
As we would like to be treated
No...
Rather let's irrationally love all our enemies
Lets forcibly bend our minds
To violent peace
Because the Most High wishes it...
All rights reserved only to him
To rationally arrive
At peace and grace and compassion
Through an inner drive
No!
We never can deserve it
But as abject objects
We may beg and plead
Kill our brothers
Lust after the other woman
Yes!
We may Do as we please
If only?
Ha ha!
If only we truly repent for it!

I laugh you off like
Frothy spittle out of my
Mouth
Upon God, your faux kindness do not spout
When your hardened eyes avoid the seeking glance
When your stony hearts can never see how
My soul too can dance
To the music of your
Savior extraordinaire
Simply because I will not
Purchase
The ticket to his concert
However Fair!
I will not allow
My soul to be bought or soul
Grace contrition cannot be mere purchases
To be controlled
By membership to exclusive leagues
Brothers, your humility clothes a pride I do not seek
And though these hurting eyes shall weep
Every teardrop shall speak as they wipe your feet with it

I believe in a Man of God
That he came with a mission
That holy books contain the germ of vision
That germinate in the soil of individual minds
God's books are we living and loving
And weaving parables
That in libraries you can never find.

Trust in man who erring can
Realize withdraw and check his flaws
Rather than following a stagnant book
Which stopped growing centuries before.
In  it are pretty gurgling brooks crystal clear
And tangled deadwood of yesteryears.

Infallibility is a myth
Cling on to it
Bypass the road to perdition
Never mind your mind
Be ministered by blind
Men seeking to describe
The elephant.

And so
Refuse to put Man
Before a Book
So let Deception be the Holy crook
The staff of serpent be guided by
Eternal damnation or Salvation are both
Carrots and sticks
In deadwood forests they plentiful lie...

Choose well...be led by ring and nozzle
Keep your blinkers add a muzzle
End your days and then..?
And then goodbye.

So no
I do not believe such
Mumbo jumbo grace
I cannot cannibalize
My Savior's face
That He should die
So we should Live
Now that's a cause
For eternal grief
That His death
Should purchase our relief
Were I to make that my Belief
Why no sin should be
Beyond my reach
I could fritter away the frill of my life's lease
In the end sign up for the saving bond
And call myself "Once lost, now
Found!"

You say I can't earn it
Sure but I can try it
Ends don't justify means
Because I can't pass the advanced test
Doesn't mean I won't sit for it.
Lord give me grace marks for effort
Priests, Desist from selling
Your deadly tort.

Kindness is  pleasure
I thrive in sweet speech and soft looks and a loving smile for one
Whose heart longs for it.

It's free and easy to give without
Measure
Without hoarding it  like your personal treasure
to bequeath only on
"Deserving" candidates
Good will to all of you my friends
And I  wish you much luck and love
Upon your  fates.

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(c) Amrita Valan 2015