LOT"S WIFE
Genesis 19 speaks of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot was warned by two angels to take his family out of the city (Genesis 19:12).(26) But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."This is a satirical inverted account of the story of Lot. He and his wife are part of an autocratic rule of an oppressed peoples. They are chased from the city but the people longing for safety hark en back to a heritage of fear where thinking freely is done safely by Lot and his wife. Angels return and say not to look back on them or they shall turn to salt..some do and the rest is history..i hope many do not find this blasphemous..most essentially God!

On the evening of the day of the morning before, Lot arose from his bed. He looked at his aging, calloused hands as he washed his face, observing how carefully molded they had become from working diligently and hard all his life. He smiled kindly at his wife as she lay sleeping peaceably."Tomorrow..." he thought within the calm dark, night, " we shall leave our home."War had ravaged the city and confusion and chaos had ensued.The old ways had become corrupted and twisted within three generations. Lot once truly a man of God had also become corrupted with his fear of losing his once great power. He saw how he and his people flew into the wind with pride and a stubborn abstinence. But without the knowledge of will and his commands, his order could not evoke true freedom or hold control.His gestures thus appeared not as love but as a rule of oppression.The people of Sodom remained trapped within an old order, deaf to the sound of true love or any real freedom.Some begged him not to leave, to stay firm as a great Pillar of salt to hold the city strong but the city crumbled more under his vision and efforts.Lot eventually was seen as an enemy of his people who felt oppressed through his knowledge of old ways.Then two beautiful angels appeared to warn the people of Sodom that if Lot and his family remained there then a great disaster would befall the city and all its peoples. So Lot and his wife with daughters were turned away and banished from the land.Lot smiled gently as he shook his wife out of her quiet sleep to begin their long travels. He sat back looking sadly at his home. He knew It was time to let his people go and felt unfettered as he picked up the last of his belongings.Then embarking into the early morning, they resolved to make their way into the unknown and uncharted new territories.A small crowd gathered, standing firm to look as this once great pillar who held their City together left but whose rule had now blinded them from experiencing all that was new or free. They stood fixed like stone statues as they watched him slowly disappear far into the distance...

Moral:Though old men could never turn back the clocks to recapture their youth... the young shall never know the wisdom nor the freedom to ever let go...

SMOG OF OPPRESSION
Looking down the barrel
of this oppressive State
my God, how can people exist here?
I wonder this all the time
or breath through
the invisible smog of smoke
polluted with bigotry
so thick enough to choke on
sometimes
if I could only see it
name it
identify how
it leeks out into the air
just to exist
with an oppressed peoples
it stays heavy
lurking behind a stone veneer
of crude smiles...