Sloth
by 
Jojovits1
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Posted: Saturday, January 21, 2017 Word Count: 69 Summary: Sloth is not a sin of doing something bad - rather a sin of not doing something. Sloth is a sin of omitting responsibilities. Sometimes feels like God has retired and left us to it. |
Sloth
Omnipotence shrugged
like an unwelcome embrace.
With a sigh
sticky with grief,
God creeps out the back.
Drown in your own mess,
Heaven has ceased trading.
He will not return
for the sirens
or the children;
the homeless
the hopeless.
but
Earth cannot bear chaos.
She mends.
disinfects what was
abandoned with
Volcano, Tsunami.
She shudders and
the world cracks open
to kill the pain
and renew.
Omnipotence shrugged
like an unwelcome embrace.
With a sigh
sticky with grief,
God creeps out the back.
Drown in your own mess,
Heaven has ceased trading.
He will not return
for the sirens
or the children;
the homeless
the hopeless.
but
Earth cannot bear chaos.
She mends.
disinfects what was
abandoned with
Volcano, Tsunami.
She shudders and
the world cracks open
to kill the pain
and renew.