Online Abuse

after Psalm 64 (Hebrew) / 63 (Greek)

A babble of voices
Viciously pouring cursed contempt
Engulfing an innocent's life
In bile and blood-soaked faeces;
From fear, cover me

Their secret schemes
Nefarious plots of smiling evil
A maddened mob of angry agitators
And I am caught in the open;
From cross-hairs, hide me

Torrents of endless abuse from poison-tipped tongues
Lisping sharpened shards of acid bitterness
Cut deep into an innocent's flesh
Their arrows racing from mouth'd dank darkness
Fly unseen in ambush at the trembling one;
Where are You?

Reason un-reasoned by evil re-echoed
Gibbering ghosts laying unexpected snares
Giggling, hooting, hissing 'who can see us?'
As Justice seeks them now naked sans screen'd anonymity;
Can You see them?

One man, eyed, is much as another
Pry deep within and uncover the bloody sang
The pulsing heart of mischanced wisdom
Whose calcinated cavern dies in depths
Invisible to all;
But not to Him who sees all

A final fatal arrow flies from brightest light 
To penumbral tenebrae shot suddenly
A heart siezed, ceases to pulse its evil purpose
Passes out, paid in full
If such a tongue could talk saying,
'Did I enact such a death?'

Men, un-marched from their mayhem'd madness
Stop, dropping ready stones by age
Heads droop - hands fall - and shake
A crime scene of bloodied deeds planned
Serenaded by bitterest songs of lament
Of God and men;
'Think on this'

She stooped still cast in spittle
A smile warming her haggard face
Hidden here in the wings of His linen
'My dearest, you are innocent'
A heart of truth not belied
A hope not lost but refound.