HOLY PLAGUE
We’ve been invaded, Harassed and battered Broken and torn apart By a strange, nameless menace. It started as nothing, And grew into a wild beast, It began like a cool breeze And morphed into a storm The noise keeps rising: The shouts, the loud halleluiahs, The buildings keep doubling, Here and there a new structure Now and then a new signboard Each new day, a new nomenclature, Each season, a new, troubling doctrine. The number keeps swelling, The offerings keep getting fatter, The sermons keep changing To meet the longings of the age. Retreats are on the increase, Concerts at every corner Now and then the globe is toured This moment or the next a soul is won But all things are as were Before the dawn of the hoy ones The world is still the world And men are still men Flesh still feels like flesh And blood still flows like blood. The saved and the unsaved Still tread the path of all flesh.