Glory

I heard your grumbling.
My glory, my glory — why is it always about my glory?
But let me raise you a question:
if not my glory,
then whose?
Yours?
Didn’t we already try that?
My son, get up out of your bag
& off thy high horse.
You wanna be Alpha, King, Author?
Bet. Let’s compare stories.

I read your manuscript,
and I won’t call it boring,
but it put all of my angels to sleep.
I found your plot
beneath a heap of debris and rocks —
revisions, whiteouts, and red ink
where your failures and doubts should be.
I mean, at least you tried,
but son, who are you running from?
Your mind has traded the light of my Sun for candles,
your mind is the place where I’ve given you the grace
to pen away your shackles,
yet you hide behind holy lines as if
the Spirit of God can’t spot
the cobwebs of your pride.

And you know me,
I can’t lie —
I’m underwhelmed by your writing style.
Every chapter, there he goes,
the lone wolf,
always at the center
of a world
that even he was born into.
First the pride, then the fall, then the tears,
but blame God —
my son (can I call You that, Almighty One?),
don’t this tune ever get boring?

Forget the story, forget their applause,
forget the stars that cloud your nights,
just remember my cross,
even in the dark, there is a light,
there is a moon,
find me
in the deepest, forbidden rooms of your heart and see that
there is just me and you
at a table for two.
Your thoughts don’t scare me,
I’m not surprised by your moods.
But you think of glory
like a child…

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