Unearned Holiness

Unearned holiness

Fills your feeding bowl.

Pearls lie at your feet,

Trampled into dust

A generation scattered

Beneath your careless tread.

The sacred is convenient,

Holiness monetized,

Purity reduced to a latchkey idea,

The divine served on a drive-thru tray.

Profanity lurks beneath the floorboards,

Blasphemy swept into corners,

Secular murmurs stir softly

In the steam of morning coffee.

Irreverence hums

In the classifieds of mortal life.

Indulgence wears the mask of virtue,

Forty years of nine-to-five

Earn a Medal of Honor

In a display of hollow righteousness.

Wake

Wake and smell the rosary.

Gluttony of consumerism

Never lets opportunity for excess go by.

Righteousness paraded,

Righteousness held in escrow.

Pretending care for the poor

While stripping them bare,

Stealing the futures of children,

Debt offered as a cure for every burden.

Trample the pearls,

Swine at the banquet.

Piss on holiness,

Dogs at the altar.