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A Whatever World

“Whatever” you say
with a shrug of the shoulders
in a nonchalant way.

An overused word
it’s a perfect catch-phrase
dreadfully dismissive
signaling to all,
I am not in the mood.

Indifference stumbles around
waving away
offers of soulful solutions
in a tide of boredom
creeping to another shore.

Bombarded by jarring news
apathy tunes out
the endless noisy graffiti staring at us
as protection wraps around
the core of me.

The passionless word
occupies the now world
growing contagious
in a bewildered twilight
of appalling paralysis.

A knock on the door
awakens me out of a lukewarm trance*
to the Spirit moving gently
cajoling me into building God’s kingdom
brick by beautiful brick
lest I am spittle on the floor of nothingness.

And the detached fugitive
sitting in an unnamed moment
is stirred into action
by the intimacy of surrender.

*“So then, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.”

                                                            (Revelation 3:16)