Flash in the Shattered

Poem a day for Lent 2026, #3

The rules that extract
and seek to own
everyone’s dirt.

Protests voice
desperately
the defense of history
from a hijacking.

Christ stands firm
in uncertainty—
clearly in critique
of monoliths of power,
centralized.

We connect with a desired savior
much differently
than our parents’ generation,
in summary.

Glints
from shattered glass
flash the integrity of stories.

The kingdom
to the highest bidders.
We struggle
as the narratives
slowly slip away.