The Word in Focus with Dr Larry Taylor

Streams become rivers become lakes become seas

Delphiniums and phlox rise from soil soaked

In the blood of children, lives strafed under the

Rubble of hospitals and apartment buildings.

Choking dystopic kakistocracy 

Gagging pollutants, leaded water,

Internment camps and weeping mothers

Beside brain-washed lockstep robots.

Devils cackle and dance 

Freedom, intelligence, rationality, science,

Compassion, charity, empathy, 

All dead.

And yet.

Gently flow the waters of Shiloah from

Sources high in the Mountains of Delights

Where pristine snow is filtered through granite

To become the springs of life.

Weary travelers, exhausted mountaineers

Stoop and kneel to drink deeply of icy

Sustainability while the lame wait patiently for 

Angelic turbulence to ruffle the peace.

Cougar and ibex lay aside their

Animosity and fear to lap up shalom

Side by side with unicorn and chimera

On banks strewn with broken guns.