Faith

Faith in Tories and faith in the Lord

Are on trial when Katie’s ignored.

In her firm Christian view,

‘Turn the other cheek too’

Has no merit like “Fall on your sword!”

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the following stories: “The devout Christian ex-Tory mayor called by MP at centre of sleaze scandal” in The Independent and “Mark Menzies: Police looking into claims he used campaign funds to pay ‘bad people’ in The Daily Mirror.