Laodicea

Laodicea,
a church of cherry-picking
the orthodoxy.

The orthopraxy
reflects this troubling way
of thought, of worldview.

Now the eternal
model cited by scholars
the whole Earth over.

In the ancient days,
the hearty work ethic brought
them back from the brink.

The fault line could not
destroy their thirst for the things
of this corrupt space.

Although their real thirst
was slaked by the polluted
waterways nearby.

The bankers, doctors
and weavers are put under
the all-seeing eye.

Gold refined by fire,
cloth the most immaculate,
eye salve so soothing.

All slaking their thirst
in the atomic waters
so putrid and vile.

They are poor and blind,
wretched and naked, blind to
the Spirited Truth.

They are neither the
cold river above or the
hot spring down below.

And they will be thrown
out like a mouthful, toothpaste
with rotten food bits.

But the righteous ones
have found favor with the Lord,
sitting on his throne.

They have the refined
gold, they have the garments of
white, so very pure.

They have the ointment
that cures the spiritual
conjunctivitis.

The Paschal Lamb says,
“Repent of your wicked ways
and become restored.”

Be hot or be cold,
do not be like the church of
Laodicea.