good news

spirit shuffle shiver

endlessly reaching

dream's a barren quiver

and loss is ever breaching

lines we set before

heart or head it's all the same

fodder for the war

we never knew it came

and Caiaphas takes his fag

it is now finally done

an erudite and human drag

a dream for now undone

pagan, seeker, sanhedrin

come unto the giving hill

see just how the Nazarene

somehow outshines us still

a quiet thought amid the storm

and times of hell on earth

from filth to grace transform

and come to know love's worth

simple static on the air

we don't know who we are

holy host no longer there

we live and love so far

beyond cross or hollow rite

please spare us the address

caring seems to us as blight

eternal we regress

recede and fade so far away

the cleansing of the world

a new cabal at dawn's new day

new flags as yet unfurl

just be as one with what feels right

a truth once brought from Damascus

and one by one we shall ignite 

the soul's good news in all of 

us