Christianity Is...

 

...not the tight turban

Sitting upon unwashed hair.

Not the unpainted lips

Though occupied with gossips.

Not the sword-tie of the usher

Though he is a lecher.

It supersedes the preacher's logic

Spewed on the pew;

It transcends the dust

Raised by your dancing feet.

 

Not your charisma that lacks charity

Not your speaking-in-tongue

Though devoid of truth.

Not your hands raised for a miracle

Though you visit an oracle.

Not your stealing purse

Emptied in the offering bag.

Not your high- heels laced with lies.

Not your song thirsty for applause,

Leaving a sinner untouched.

Not even your skirt, not your gown,

Fluttering fornication into the sanctuary.

Christianity is a scene

Seen not by sin.

 

From Sola Ogunbayo: Sola Ogunbayo is a Christian poet, a literary critic, an author of two books namely, The Wheel of God and other Stories and The Lion and Joel. The Nigerian writer has a heavenly forte to war with words.