Magnificat

“My soul does magnify the Lord,”
sang mother Mary, the communist
picture her in cast-off
military fatigues and work clothes
instead of silken sky blue robes.
God’s humble handmaid was, after all,
a peasant girl,
            not the Queen of Heaven.

Her manifesto in song: 
Scatter the proud like dust.
Topple thrones of tyrant power.
Fill the hungry with fine food
and send the rich away with empty stomachs,
            empty wallets.

This is the sort of leftist propaganda
we expect from godless socialists
and liberal secular humanists,
but from the holy mother of God?
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
            What was she thinking?