Human Barbarism

Humans have always been barbaric conquerors. 
Our nature has not changed. 
We merely have twisted our barbarism
Into different guises to make them acceptable
To our times. 

Messenger of God

No one would believe a messenger of God today.
There have been far too many false prophets
Who were, quite frankly, too damn crazy.

If God were to make a well-known public figure
Her new prophet there would be much skepticism
From the general public and rightly so.

If God were attempting to reach us then perhaps
Sending a prophet is no longer the best way
To send commandments and updates to the most

Recent testament. The Bible could stand to use
An update given the state of the modern world.
The Bible has no firm stance on people who fail

To use their turn signals while changing lanes.
The Bible could, at the very least, have some
updated parables. Perhaps God has given up

On the concept of prophets. Perhaps She is
Reaching us through new means that we have
Yet to acknowledge as such. I can touch you

From a distance when you pull out your phone
And stare at the lit screen. How easy would it be
For God to merely send us a reminder text about

Her infinite and never ending love.

On Modernity

It is no longer necessary to be kind and understanding
when we are able to curate a vision of the world that
stands in unanimous agreement with us.

Discourse has no place in discussion and we can reduce
one another from fellow human to ignorant fool in a breath.

It's no longer necessary to travel the world to view our vast
capacity for cruelty- one need only to look at their phone.

Without Dissent

A choir of voices echoing back,

babbling into nonsense

where language once was.

The great sin

of the Information Age

is that we are allowed to carry 

informed opinions

on trivial matters

while being ill-informed on 

matters of consequence.

Technology is the umbilical 

noose that will kill us all.