LYNCHING

There is something in us -

that reminds us - that we can 

be both beautiful and crazy -

helping or hurting one another 

in the same hour or  same day.

It’s right there in the front pages 

of our Bibles - we can  reach for 

forbidden fruit and walk with our God 

in the cool of the evening - and one brother 

can kill one’s brother the next morning. 

There is something in us that tells 

us to build memorials - for those 

who were stoned, shot, crushed, 

gased, lynched, so we never forget, 

“Every person screams  with God, ‘I am!’” 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018