What’s ailing our spiritual lives are not only drugs, alcohol, and tobacco

nor the smut we see in movies, tv, and social media

or what we do in the privacy of our homes.

The insidious violence committed by self-proclaimed spiritual folk

is what they do in the privacy of that voting booth

placing bets on people of power who offer the moon,

people of power, people who lie

to further enrich themselves

and those who have much, much more

than they need,

those who have much more

than they should.

What happens in that voting booth

often becomes an act of complicity

in exacerbating an already unjust economy,

an economy that relegates tens of millions

to a type of enslavement,

an endless agony of stress

that assaults the health of people,

of families,

of children.

Surely, can we not adjudicate our spiritual values

by something other than our devotion

to our place of worship

or our personal virtues?

The GREAT GAP

between those who have plenty

and those who struggle

to stay afloat, economically,

is, in large part, facilitated

by those of us who are deluded

in believing that voting

is simply our personal business.

The God up above is looking down with love,

be careful child of God,

how you vote.