Find your voice

The thought police

have struck again.

Intimidation wraps

its suffocating bands

around those who

would consider

something

different

from the

forced philosophies

expressed at every turn

during a total fire ban

on free speech.

Moderate, conservative,
family friendly, upstanding.

Words of former generations
respected now reviled,

and increasingly linked
with hate crimes.

Biblical world views

once the revered bedrock

of Western Civilization

have been more than discarded.

They are attacked, shredded,
as intolerant and unacceptable.

How has what was known as good
become so vilified?

How has what was known as evil
become so praised?

Am I guilty of remaining silent

when I should be speaking?

Is there still time to speak?


Do I need at this late hour

to clear my throat,

and begin to say what I believe

rather than being silenced by fear

of what might happen to me?

I cannot go into all the world

and make disciples

if I do not speak.

God give me courage to find my voice.