Is it difficult to hear the voice of God from within the noise that is modernity?

Difficult to remember whose you are from within the construct created for your mind by MTV, BET, CNN, the SAT?

I am jostled by the word CONTAINMENT

Startled into wakefulness

by the idea that we are somehow being contained

And as I listen to Lou Dobbs speak about the middle class

I ponder his words thoughtfully

curiously

warily

suspiciously

and words such as gentrification become living organisms

with a heartbeat of their own

breathing and drawing life

parasites

and people become hosts

incubating death and lethal habits, behaviors, desires, impulses

vulnerable to this thing containing them

this thing that watches them kill themselves and then slowly die

watches them

tearing each other down

breaking each others hearts

leading each other astray

ignoring the ways of God

Containment

is the opposite of

Liberation

O Brother!

O Sister!

Please don’t fail me now!