🪞 Psalm 14: The Ones Who Forgot Love

retransmitted by Virgin Monk Boy after scrolling the news, whispering a prayer, and holding his face in his hands

1
The fool is not the one who doubts God
but the one who forgets
that Love is real
and that every face bears its image

They do harm without blinking
consume without pause
confuse power with purpose

There is no breath of reverence in their doing
no space for awe in their hunger

2
The Holy gazes across this spinning world
not from above
but from within
searching for one
just one
who remembers how to listen
how to be still
how to look at another and see themselves

3
But we have turned from each other
forgotten our roots
made efficiency into holiness
and self-protection into law

There is no one untouched by this forgetting
No one who hasn't looked away
when it was too much to feel

4
Do the harm-doers not know
they eat people like bread
they swallow whole lives
and do not even taste the grief?

They do not call out
because they do not believe anyone is listening

5
But still
a trembling comes
a holy unease
even among the mockers

Love does not abandon the ones who are trampled
It surrounds them
It remembers what the world refused to carry

6
You can shame the poor
You can laugh at their prayers
but the refuge they run to
is more real than your towers

7
Oh that liberation would rise
not from a throne
but from among us

Let joy rise again
from the places they called hopeless

Let Love restore what was exiled

And let us
finally
come home

—Virgin Monk Boy
(who once thought the fool was someone else
but now just prays not to forget what matters)

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