our house shook today
because we knew that something must be done
to alter the outcome
to stop the killing
to save the children
before our children became weapons of war
there was a way in which we went
all those who called the cross of Christ correct
began America’s early colonial schools
and opened them
to the public
begun with God
in prayer, in the Word
continued well until
a fight broke out within the house
the holy house of God
peace left the schools that day
with the Word
and tumult came tumbling after
push out the prayer
cast out commandments
begin a philosophy of earth’s beginnings
disrespect dominated
not one, but three generations
so nearly now removed
Lord Jesus is unknown
His ways, His Word, His peace
heaping hallways instead
with curses
and evil unspeakable
out of the heart come evils (Matt 15:19)
which have filled the place
of God’s Word
the Words of life (John 6:63)—
leaving only death to rule
(C) Kelly Jadon 2022