Adrian Wait - Indifference

This day will do
It is nothing special
The load is no different
No heavy or darker
Hopelessness neither
Increases or decreases
Indifference
Anger no more, nor less
Your eye on the prize
Too busy to pause
Career usurps Vocation
Exploiting the poor
For your thesis
Indifference
Your professional ladder
Rests on the back of the trapped
Cold wind of disengagement
Substitute for pastoral care
Too busy to listen, or pause
Ambition exposes apathy
Indifference
Listening will challenge
livelihood plans, or career
Lose your life, not you, no fear,
That would spoil your plan
Stop a while, if asked
Lend an ear, if conducive
Indifference
Safe within the disengaged
Enclosed by the self chosen
Conformed to the old mind
White washed walls
Reinforce the space
Of unfilled seats
Indifference
Pride in disguise
Conceals Micah’s words
Coldness the mark of Cain
Then tick the boxes, safe within
Your circle of friends
Your feigned Christ likeness
Reveals, Indifference.

Adrian Wait

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