'The Good Book'

The Good Book is books aplenty
. Each from a different source
To tell us what it really meant he
. Shouts at us until he's hoarse.

Though his words thunder from Above
. . He speaks no Hebrew, no Greek,
Still he hollers about God's love
. How the Earth goes to the Meek.

To read the Vulgate requires latin
. To make sense of it scholars
The kind of learning that you find in
. Jesuit priests in collars.

This Word drawn from many voices
. As hurled down from Babel's Tower
Leaves us with so many choices
. On interpreting this Power.
May 23, 2009