a
miraculous
blindness

willingly
self afflicted

turn
jaundiced
eyes

from the
corruption

of
sacred
vows

a
miraculous
transfiguration

renewed
evangelical
ardor

a
refreshed
public face

beheld and
adored

ripping
iron curtains

into tiny
pieces

obscuring
stains

on altars
of shame

they once
brought a boy

vexed with
lunacy

to the
Good Healer

“oh faithless
perverse
generation
how long
must I
suffer you?”

Jesus
cured
the boy.

Disciples
asked,
why they
failed
to cast the
demon
out?

veneration
of worldly
trappings
defiles my
body

find in
yourself
a faith
the size
of a
mustard
seed

and the
demons
will flee
from the
body long
wracked
with illness

Matthew 17 14-21

Gnarls Barkley
Whose Gonna Save My Soul Now

Oakland
4/25/14
jbm