So, What’s The Score?
So, what’s the score? I ask, my friend,
On what does now your life depend?
On cake with icing optional?
Or icing as irrational?For that’s the name of game for me –
It’s how in heck the world I see?
“Heck” being euphemisms sound,
For hell we’re in where few abound.Abound, abundance – same the tree
Of words – like term, “prosperity”;
When givers jack economy,
Few others see prosperity.But what of “righteousness”, my friend?
The means by which you reach that end?
What end? Why that “prosperity
With righteousness” you wish to see.So what is righteousness these days?
The means of cash by which one pays
For self and one’s own family?
In doing which one meets one’s needs?Well yes, and no – for “yes”, that’s right –
Is in the style by which you fight
Within a world turned upside down,
Which means the down’s where up is found.But “no” is lodged in how one lives
One’s down as up, in world that gives
Rewards and praise to those who say
That “down is up” in Plato’s cave.It’s lived by Spirit’s guiding word –
In oh, so many ways it’s heard –
To be a Spirit-walker type,
Defines for me the way that’s right –And graces us till we get there –
That’s righteousness – as we prepare
For what each day presents to us,
We pray for grace midst challenges.navigation