Bishop, Bishop, Primate, Primate

Harold Macdonald Poetry

 

Ecumenical Humour

Reflections on the never ending argument...

 

Bishop, bishop, primate, primate

were your holy hands in prayer?

Squabble squabble; verily it's very late

for you to care.

 

The sands of time have run their course

the geni from the bottle outed

the office severed from its Source

the calling flouted.

 

Rt. Rev. Humpty had his fall

the egg cannot unscrambled be

the church drinks vinegar and gall

drifting in unholy sea.

 

Peace in pieces, gone for good

no turning back to better things

no patching up, if e'en we would;

no singer sings

 

Vacant shrines, broken walls

litter the time of vanished faith

remnants of an ancient Fall,

sans ghost, sans wraith.

 

For how can worthy worship rise,

the sovereignty of God unknown

displaced by wordy enterprise

but tares are sown?

 

Copyright © 2003 Harold Macdonald - used with permission