To, Me. 2023

Is keeping things to yourself hard?
Does Silence cut you like a shard
Of Truth you find embarrassing?
It’s not that you are gossiping –
The Gospels too are gossip, right?
The gossip on one Jesus Christ?
It’s what you gossip and with whom,
To what details your gossips zoom,
That gives me reason for concern.
By learning more than they should learn
They gain a hold on you and me
And I prefer remaining free.
And ’cause we are no Jesuses,
Nor endowed with geniuses,
We’re quite unfit for gospel talk.
No people throng us, when we walk,
To hang on to our every line.
Resist the bragging. We are fine
Despite what anybody says.
To socialise, we’ve other ways.