Shut up (Meditations on Luke 18.39)

"Shut up, you, blind man!
You suffer for your sin!
Do not disturb our Lord.
He is now coming in.

"Do not disturb our Lord.
We know how to deal
With Him and what to ask,
And how to welcome Him.

"Shut up! Stop yelling here!
You make us cringe inside.
The Lord is busy now.
Your suffering is right.

"Sit here in your dirt
And let us quickly pass."
"Who told this idiot
Of the Messiah's path?"

We hold our Jesus in
Our churches and our homes.
He is for us, my friend.
He is for us alone.

Do not disturb our church
By weird smells or looks.
Our Jesus is for us
And not for those crooks.

We kicked our God away
From buildings where we pray,
While Jesus goes to poor
Through dirt and through manure.

Our plastic faith is clean.
It's even sanitized,
While living faith will glow
Refined by sacrifice.

(See now Mt. 25.31-46)

Andre Anokhin
16.09.2018