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To the street evangelist
I caution:

it is not God vs Mankind
for you yourself would be overrun
found with guilt and exposed with rot,
vile and set to be unwrapped from flesh;
your bones would share a campfire’s sight
of sticks lent up to be heat.

But instead it is Us All Together
and not a one with a word or deed
could come at you, come at me,
come at them with brows high
chins upward raised
to offer heed that He comes

instead offer humanity
relate to one-another’s calamity
we are not of unlike blood
while our spirits afresh,
still out bodies wrestle alike;
approach with the good news

leave behind
your conquesting posture.