Holy Fire

Are you alive inside or are you already dead?

holy fire

rhymes with ire

~ who lacks rage

has no heart

has no fire

~ yes rage is holy too

not peace alone

that’s milktoast and gruel

for without iron in your blood no one survives

heme delivers ire for your cells to breathe

and any man or woman lacking fire

won’t survive.

Jesus said I came not to bring peace

I came bearing the sword.

Swords are for slicing

false from true

and rotten from living flesh.

So Damocles and Solomon understood the stakes.

Do you see your soul on the precipice

of rejecting divine command

to perceive what others neglect

just as the builders of old

rejected the sun

placing instead on the cap of that pyramid

the Lie

its eye expressive of utter contempt

~ if still you believe things will muddle through

you will eat doom for breakfast

and you will chew earth for lunch

without awakening

to your promise

unfolding in fields beyond your imagining

where truth blooms in colors unheard of and sounds unseen.

~ the mask of the beast is now upon you

as is the call of the angel

only you can decide which way to turn

and only once, so choose wisely, my friend.