Mustard and Water Remixed: Fire and Ice

 

Mustard and Water Remixed: Fire and Ice

Or

Malachi 3:5

Man or Animal…

Never through me shall thou come to harm…

The fire on the horizon is closer than you think

The clouds in front–the poisoned water you drink

Looked at it 1,000 times

You swore it was an icy sky

But the Everlasting’s Fire

Broadcasts the hippo spies

Tomorrow is pay day

Go home and make love to your wife

Tomorrow is pay day

Never shall you feel the pain of a knife

That cuts away the family

Slices through the night

That cuts away the church

Watch out!

the Flame transformed to white

Look closely again at the horizon

Orange is the divide

Sky and Ocean

Air and Water

Theory and Practice

Covenant and Constitution

Man and animal

man and man

…

Documented and Inhuman

Written and Inhumane

Truth is a spur in the Achilles’ heel

Tell your story of success again

Tell your favorite Bible verse

I guess you like them all

It’s all so great grate great

Spraypainted on the wall

Red truck pulls up to blue lifeguard stand

The point blocks out the cove

Fire breaks through the icy clouds

Orange shatters the water with love

A thousand squares of dancing light

Flickering toward the sand

Running, gasping, sinking

Reaching with desperate hand

Icy is the horsebacked rider

Icy is the unmarked craft

Blue ship on icy water

Designed to carry them back

The Man of Grapes from icy water

Was a foreigner to legions and judges

Samaritans are still the devil

As the club comes down and bludgeons

Bludgeons the truth into icy orange squares

From sea to lake extends the file

The tide washes away grand designs

And he’ll be gone a while

Gone will be the minions

Cold water laps against the quay

The warming process has begun

Porque Fire melts the ice away