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Congregate ... where?


Psalm 51:8-10 

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven!
May the bones you crushed rejoice!
Hide your face from my sins!
Wipe away all my guilt!
10 Create for me a pure heart, O God!
Renew a resolute spirit within me!

 Congregate

 

Congregate where you need to be gathered in the common

Looking up or down ... waiting for truth to summon

 

Remembering faces of the past where anger ruled with restriction

And darkness possessed common ground ... with truth as a victim

 

As time moves on and memory fades ... forget the facade of rage

Just accept then the gilded mask ... as a victim in this race

 

What is under that gilded mask ... was it there before?

Isn’t it the same old house ... with just a new front door?

 

Are the owners of that house ... the lords of the slum?

Really sad ... where cream can’t rise cause of scum

 

Questions surround me as heavy smog ... and to breathe is a chore

I’m barely hanging on with tearful eyes ... I can’t find the "Only" door

 

Jan Wienen

 

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