When Jesus returns

It doesn’t really matter what we do

in our own finite occupation

of planet earth, so one theory goes.

All the pollution and the global warming

and the depletion of the fishing stocks

and the extinction of various species;

not our problem.

And all the refugee camps in border regions

and the ragged children on the smoking

garbage mountains and all the repression

and the fear

and the greedy corporate exploitation

and all the political lies; about these things

we need have no concern.

Because Jesus is coming back.

Yeah, Jesus is coming back

and he’ll wave his hand, his magic

Holy Spirit hand, and the new heaven

will replace the old, and the new earth

will take over from the old

and everything will be clean and fresh

and smell like a pair of shiny new shoes

just out of their box.

Or so one theory goes.

© Ken Rookes

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