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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CNNf9iU9Y&ab_channel=zentaylor

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It is an excellent question -

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Pertinent, 

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To ask that in a world of such impermanence

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What is there left

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For us to hold as sacred?

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Sacrality?

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What does it mean, to hold something to such a standard?

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What does it mean when there appears nothing that can?

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Today, in this age,

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Scripture can be diminished

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With no more than a Documentary Hypothesis.

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When monasteries practice

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Out of New-York, Manhattan apartments -

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When axioms of meaning, maxims of purpose,

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Can be deconstructed by moral relativism 

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And the purviews of the post-modernist -

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When secularity becomes paramount,

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And societies that function

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Outside of such separation

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Are so outwardly condemnable 

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That inward cause, spiritual imperative,

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Almost ceases to exist -

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When Hollywood cameras, film

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And computer stories

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Captured by a telephone -

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Reflected more by the nihilist 

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Than they might, by the atheist -

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Become the holy site that we all practice by

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And the sole object, of our worship -

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When we pray to shopping malls,

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Pay homage 

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At pawn shops 

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And through the smudged, beaten glass

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Of convenience store windows -

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When gravestones are marked by toy cars 

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And commemorated

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By doll houses -

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Would we even know, still, to ask

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What use might've ever been had

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For flowers?

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For crosses?

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What meaning might there be

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In a shuttered chapel, with weather-worn siding, 

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Falling into disarray

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Before the prominence

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Of a white-minted 'for sale' sign 

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And the frail shadow

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Of a broken split-rail fence?

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If there is nothing sacred in it now,

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Did its sanctity ever truly exist?

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Author's Note

(writing, to keep from not-writing)