“Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Jehovah:
“From roving about on the earth and from walking about in it.” Job 1:7
“Keep your senses, be watchful! Your adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion,
Seeking to devour someone.” 1 Peter 5:8
COBWEBBED
Have you ever looked closely at a well-formed spider web?
Its whisper-thin filaments stretched invisibly
In an implausible, even beautiful, symmetric grid?
Strands of silkiness taut and uber-strong
And strung among the branches of, say, a tree?
The unwary fly does not see it
Isn’t even aware of that web’s presence in its world
And when snared in its unassuming tendrils
It first makes half-hearted struggles to escape
Unsuccessfully
In fact, its continued struggle
Only tightens the webby restraints
And that fly becomes increasingly
Furtive, frantic….finally resigned
Accepts that the cobbing web is
Inescapable
Is it for no reason, then, that we humans
Have also been lured
Into what we’ve come to know as
WWW dot com
The World Wide WEB?
It is a MATRIX of global proportion
Offering near-instant access to information news
Education friends family other cultures
Sports entertainment online shopping deals
And yet one finds lurking, so to speak
In the shadows of its algorithmic trees
Portals to sheer and unmitigated ugliness
Violent ‘games’, pornography
Mystics and magicians, killers for hire
And all manner of assorted evil
And still, every one of us is snagged
Like swarming flies
Upon the invisible cobwebby barbs
Of the WEB’s electro-radio frequencies
Emissions penetrating our brains
Our hearts…..our very Spirit
DEVOURING us
Distracting us
So that we miss that warning flash of sunlight
Glinting upon the silky lines
And fly too close to its tackiness
Where both those flies
And mankind
Find themselves ensnared
By Jahgirl
07/19/2018