Are They Living...Life's Phony....Facade Poem by James B. Earley

Can church folks really be this evil
...Living faith as a "wink and a nod"
Full houses on Sunday mornings...
Are the services some moral facade

...Radically...prone....to disparaging...
Everybody looking different from them
...Collectively......hypocrites haven
Sanctimoniously singing God's hymns

Is it all but a preconceived notion
....A centuries-old way of life
Leveling stark condescension
....Exacting cantankerous strife

Deliberate...toward folks of color
...The poor the sick and the lame
Singling out...life's downtrodden
....Exhibiting but utter disdain

Defending....all the while...pretending
...They're literally children of God....
Sunday morning's heretical church folk
....Are they living...life's phony...facade