Holy Ground
Published by Fathom Magazine | Awarded Honorable Mention by Rehumanize International
Boot bottoms, dusty
with holy ground, trampled
Divine abundance desiccated
by gulping greed
and inebriated industry
Land watered by war
and plowed by gore. Opulence
obtained through oppression
Suffering sown as seed
Flags planted instead of freedom
The stolen ground grumbles
and. beneath it. the blood
of stolen bodies groans
Loam—once fertile and fruitful—
now crumbles, as parched
and poisoned as the
American church witness
Stewardship forsaken for profit
Creation exploited, embezzled
The plunder hailed as God’s bounty
Cultivating dispossession,
a mockery of freedom. We pledge
blind allegiance to truth untold,
praise a hidden history
Shoulders proud, hands
over hearts of stone, erecting
monuments where we should
be kneeling graveside