Should we follow the bible or what?

Wait, what? 

Well, it takes patience to follow 
the bible, and not necessarily 
the saintly kind. It's a fine, fine 
line and a good book, they say 
- but it doesn't exactly follow

well, 

more to the point it mostly sits
there. On the shelf, the bedside 
table, in a trunk, stowed in a backpack 
for ballast while you hike, wherever 

you put it. Assuming it's out, and 
you want to follow it a stretch, 
pace yourself! You can't follow 
unless the mark you've chosen 
to tail makes first moves, and 

the bible habitually doesn't. 

It sits. 

Well, so we just stand. Patience comes 
to those who wait. He who's lost 
will hesitate, and we do. 

Waiting on the bible, eager to follow 
some of us, others of us tailing off 
after people who claim to be bible 
followers - but where's the lead? Seems 

to me (and I'm not alone) that lots of those 
"followers" are taking their own leads 
and going their own ways, with good 
intentions - and you know what kind 

of handbasket 

that ends up in. Still, lead on 

bible. 

I've got my eye on ya. Oh
wait. Oh
kay. 

I guess you have to open the thing. 
Go on a journey in your mind, 

maybe hearken to something still,
small, and at least allegorically 
audible. I hear ya Lord! Loud 

and um. Well, 
loud. 

What.