Lamb Ent

When anger & frustration rise up and

disturbances and grief come piling on,

when loss & then hypocrisy demand

a clean up, as a sign “Corruption's gone

for long enough!” & will be dealt with when

the dealer has dealt all the cards to each,

but may demand the same cards back again

to clarify if there is any breach.

Not as a rule, but more “each eye has seen

quite clearly all the scales that have been just.”

And ev'ry person knows all good that's been

reflecting God's own “goods & services”

to all creation that has ever lived.

Not one good deed untested or unshown.

For evil is a hole with good “un-gived.”

No person overlooked. All will be known.

The lamb who went full knowing to that “tree”

to let all lacks, and hellish holes be filled,

to shed “unguilty blood” quite willingly

not crying out that murderers be killed,

but surely leading all who'd follow him

to take their cross themselves, in self-denial;

& trust this God (who loves upon a whim)

to make a new creation, single-file,

and bring all trees alive to dance and sing

to clap their hands & wave with mountains tall

to bow before their coming future king,

may then allow laments to grow quite small.

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