Before You Preach

Can you chant the tales and sing songs

of glory of the ones

that stab your heart?

Can you pick flowers

and string garlands for the one,

whose shirt soaks in your lover's blood?

Do you have the heart to feed

the hungry child out on the street

and not feed your own?

Can you walk miles under the sun

on your wounded feet and

neither cry nor moan?

Can you do it all?

or can you do all but one?

Yet you preach, aloud,

like all your deeds are done;

So you feel closer to God -

but just in verse.

Think; Should you,

at all, feel imperious?