"Legalies It"

Calling all the oppressed, weary & easily fixed,
Thoughts of prosperity gospel are not mixed
like the incompatibility of Living Water & snake oil.
This anthem of Best Life Now cannot continue its cadence.

Entrepreneur of untruth, a brand
of wide smiles & slicked-back hair,
utilized & sold to falsify & ensnare.
Please, I insist: buyers beware.

The guile of demons within the church reek like cannabis,
mutagenizing worship to step-by-step programs of self-sufficiency.
How chronic in 4:20 time do we inhale the sickly sweet hit
of tradition, comfort & safety?
How often do we roll with the punches of daily changed rules?
How blunt are the guidelines we put on ourselves
to "good" our way to the Being that  loves us more than we can fathom?
We are under the spiritual maladjustment of Sister Mary Jane.

The Conductor of the Pineapple Express, she heaps half-truths & white lies
to fuel the loathsome locomotive of our desire.
For ourselves instead of Christ.

The pursuit for possession of power is a precursor to the primary problem.

The drug-inducing short-term memory loss, the very purple haze of legalism
that people want to utilize for escape is a cloud of deception;
the very place they run to for assumed freedom
is the place where one person after another gets trapped.

When the foggy narcotic yields excessive hunger
for something other than Him,
there is a costly disconnect.

It imbues the worst spiritual paranoia: "Am I saved?"
Or worse yet: "I'm totally fine...right?"