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No Offense
4-26-15


As God commands thee
Destroy your idols and move on with your life
Holding out for something sweeter
And to relinquish all resentment and strife
And one too many early mornings
The boat leaves at about a quarter till nine
And I'll just be honest with the doctor
In hopes to keep composure
In hopes to get some closure
Where I have my rights
For the cities God gave to me
For an inheritance
In hopes for cool and quiet summer nights
And at the chime of four I begin again
And from the River to the ends of the earth
Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him...








Fermentation
4-26-15


Discovering a new method that sums it up
Like fermentation
I fill again my cup
It's the message, it's not the man
If it doesn't make sense it's faith
So I'll do the best I can
This is all I want to do all day long
To put forth my testimony
In the writing of my song
As God commands thee when you besiege a city
Destroy not its trees
For thou might eat of them pink ladies and galas and machintoches
The apples of his eyes, me and you
Throughout all generations
He comes down like rain
Upon the grass before mowing...








Besiege
4-26-15


O, could derision be of God
Laughing at my calamity
Or is this the way of the enemy
To discourage what I do here, now and today
That they teach and seduce
For the height of the pine, fir and spruce
O, beautiful cacophony
Do you yet traduce
Do not after their abominations
As Jesus died even for Bono and Bruce
As the cities God gives you for an inheritance
Go right in and claim them as your own
To the sound of base metals that rust and corrode
It does not need to be a dangerous road
The Word is life and a light to my path
Such a sword I take up
For love and not for wrath....










Life As A Dream
4-26-15


O, this life seems like a dream
O, I would fill another quire and its ream
Slowly unto autumn
I drink my coffee with or without cream
Recalling last night's vision
Of a fishing trip and a younger brother
That did prosper more than I
Such was a form of perhaps what I should have been
Down the road to ecstasy
Yet to build our bulwarks
An ounce of suspicion
Building walls against the city
Until they are subdued
I still take it all for granted
In this life that seems like a dream
There will be an abundance of grain in the earth
Its fruit shall wane like Lebanon
Amen...










Heliotrope
4-26-15


If one be found slain
May we be cleansed by the falling of rain
In the open country where it is not known who slain him
Where godliness is gain
For pleasure and for pain
The elders of the city will bring down an heifer in the rough valley
Another law not done away with
But so fulfilled in a love that never dies
And a word for the wise to watch another sunrise
And still get my eight hours of shuteyes
For the heliotrope, the turnsole and the bloodstone
And the fact that we won't stand here alone
Turning towards the sun
She is still beautiful to me
And I am a man of many lovers...