Easy Sermon

It must be easy to preach a sermon nowadays. – A friend

Sermons are easy,
Turgid or breezy,
When everything goes wrong.
Every scripture
Leads on to rapture,
When doom has struck its gong.

When towers are falling
And muezzins are calling,
It’s simple to kneel and pray.
A message will come
To the deaf and the dumb
In an easygoing way.

When nothing is certain,
Up goes the curtain
Where the inner sanctum lurks.
And everyone sees
The forest and trees,
The treason and the clerks.

And so every creature
Turns to the preacher
For the meaning of it all.
And a couple of cents
Can be sheer eloquence
When the highest powers fall.