Weeds

© Ken Rookes 2014 

Weeds

It is too neat; this allegory-parable

of judgement, burning weeds and

the furnaces of hell.

It purports to be the words

of the itinerant teacher called Jesus.

Perhaps it is;

doesn’t make it right, though.

Does that shock you?

Feel free to pray for my soul

if it makes you feel better.

Too neat;

feeding the smug self-righteousness

of those who know themselves to be on the inside.

We are all weeds; we are all wheat.

There is no inside,

there is no outside.

We are the causes of sin,

we are the evildoers,

and yet it is not always so,

need not always be so.

May the righteous indeed shine like the sun;

let us all be reborn into truth.

And let the children of the kingdom

shine with love, with humility,

with justice and with grace.