Burning words

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Too many of those that love the most

Are dead

Son, brother,

My lover says those Christians and Jews

Who deny the elasticity of their belief

Need help remembering.

I don’t know about much these days

Just the stupidity of sticking to life

When all you do is accumulate days

In a savings account labelled ‘fear’.

Before the Reformation

It had always been considered

A Christian’s duty to carry out

The instructions laid down

In Matthew chapter 25 –

That all Christians shall:

• Feed the hungry
• Give drink to the thirsty
• Welcome the stranger
• Clothe the naked
• Visit the sick
• Visit the prisoner
• Bury the dead.

Now most super-subtle ex-Christians couldn’t give a tinker’s curse

If that ragged,old man or woman sleeps in a bed or kips in a hearse..