Agony of a Gnostic

By KSRA

It makes no sense
all those symbols
rituals,
gone awry
why take
a blessing
from someone
unworthy ?
his hands are dirty
by association,
his mind
even dirtier,
through confession

Compassion knows
no native soil
it sprouts
in unlikely potholes
and
grows
in between
barren rock
amid
the stoic faces
of saints
in the blank
stares
of devotees
perhaps
not nurtured
but
chanced upon

"Gnostic" - relating to, or possessing intellectual or spiritual knowledge; Late Latin Gnsticus, a Gnostic, from Late Greek Gnstikos, from Greek gnstikos, concerning knowledge, from gnsis, knowledge.
[American Heritage Dictionary 2000]