Powers
From the Book, Unworthy Lives, Page 66
Copyright © 1998, 2007
Jason Lester Atkins
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Virginia Beach, VA 23454
Watching man's journey as sad comedy,
staged among players,
granted powers greater than angels:
Powers to choose their dualities and destinies:
to select good or evil:
to be sharers or takers:
Powers to choose,
who among them are unworthy lives
and judge these live's destruction:
Powers to invent worlds,
inhabiting them with creatures
of their own imaginations:
Even power, to de-construct these choices
and reimagine themselves,
as virtuous;
Powers to choose,
great courage and highest compassion:
Powers to voyage among stars:
He cannot find a meaning in the power of a choice:
Seeing a Roman soldier thrusting a killing spear
into the side of the hanging "MASTER":
Placing the murdering blame
on People of the Book, forever:
LAZARUS LAUGHS ...
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