Juan Monroy photo
By
Jehann El-Bisi
Google: God’s Thresher
God the Reaper Bearer
Wind winnowing souls
Threshing out sinners
Harvesting His Saints
And what of our time?
Technology the tool
Or, technology
the Grim Reaper
The internet:
Mechanization of God
thresher Of Babylon
Desires
like incessant radioactive rain
Flooding rooms…
in palaces of the mind
No more closed doors
Secrets are out
Drowning in temptations
To Buy and sell
Human commodities
Slavery flourishing
Hiding in plain sight
Ordinary becomes extraordinarily
Rare
Celluloid celebrity souls
You tube!
Suddenly, everyone’s a star!
Selfies,
Staring into an endless mirror…
Reflecting back,
The Macro Ego
For consumption
The great conflagration
And the small remnant…
Dying or surviving in obscurity
Waiting patiently…
Cyber footprints
God’s new
Naughty or nice list
It is easier for an elephant in the room
To enter through the eye of the needle
To type a text
Than it is for trolls and lost souls
of the matrix
To enter the gates of heaven…
Abandoners of truth, justice, and the sacred law, leaving the last harbinger of
Human sanctuary
The body temple
Where secrets and misdeeds
Could lay in wait
For old age
And judges at the seat of one’s own soul
Now,
No escape-
Google is God
And the reckoning day comes
Where judgment beats its gavel down
With a final sentencing
To ones with a wicked thirst
To own, and scoff, and play God
In the playgrounds of fools,
How will we walk?
Less upright
After scoliosis sets in
And we can no longer
Raise our heads up to pray.
Jehann El-Bisi
Jehann El-Bisi is a peace activist, who has an earned a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts and a certificate in the study of Conflict Zones and Transformation from SIT graduate school in Brattleboro, Vermont. She is a single parent to a rising Rap artist, her son, Elijah. She is a nature loving, writing and photography enthusiast, and amateur. She is the director of a short documentary film The River Cried “Mni W’Coni!” This is her first published poem.
An excellent poem!