IF
if for the whole day
you tend your garden of flowers
have a bountiful harvest of the fruits
of your selfish labor
enjoy your own breakfast of sausages
toasted bread, brewed coffee,
and some slices of oranges
if you watch your favorite movie
and then spend your time shopping in the mall
buying what you do not really need
feast your eyes in what pleases your
taste which has become so discriminating
as you too have become too sophisticated
if you dine with your chosen friends
in expensive restaurants and laugh a lot
while the rest of those unlucky ones
suffer, lost their house, and their jobs
still living to an uncertain future,
on days that mean more suffering than life
if you call that life at all,
then, by all means, you have committed sin
the sin of utter omission, the sin of indifference
and IF that night you cannot sleep
and in the following morning you go to church
hear mass, and confess your greed and avarice
you are still anxious, because you know, from
your heart, You are not forgiven.
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