What’s in a WORD?

For years the law demolished us

Our heart and soul our simple trust

With no accountability

It ruled in its verbosity

Twisted WORD misunderstood

And good turns evil and evil good

Using “submission” (a voluntary state of meekness)

As enslaver’s chain

And “accountability” (to be an open book)

For personal reign

WORDsmiths groan in painful measure

As the WORD is robbed of intrinsic treasure

And the sweetest SPIRIT is quenched once more

While HE THE WORD waits at the door

For if in wresting it was defiled

Let it now be reconciled

Let ears be opened and HIS heart be heard

And let us now redeem the WORD

Harrison  Burns

(Turn of the century Christian poet)