mettle

Mettle
8-22-15


If you're fighting to live
It's okay to die
I cash my check so I'll have something to give
As I cease to ask O, why!
By mass departure and emigration of the Israelites
From Egypt under the rule of Moses
Our Exodus for self-respect
And feelings of gratification
From association with something laudable
But not of arrogance or conceit
O, how beautiful are my feet
The bull is the pride of the herd
Go after him through the city and kill
Do not let your eye spare
For the mettle of the horse
For the coffee kettle
That says, "Of course!"....








Pros and Cons Of Pride
8-22-15


For egotism and vanity and pride
Keeps ones sanity for a favorable view of ones own appearance
For adventures and achievements for splendor and magnificence
The bull is the pride of the herd
God wants us to live life more abundantly
I know not your God nor will I let your people go
Ah, Lord God
Will you destroy the remnant
Heretofore our tale and quota of bricks
For a moment my cat blocks my light
Clinging onto life by the skin of my teeth
To scold, to reproach and to chide
And to find again in ones pride
Pebbles are scattered to gather stubble
Instead of straw
I am of uncircumcised lips...










Unregenerate
8-22-15


according to the covenant
We are given the land of Canaan
The land of their pilgrimage
Just like the pied piper
Are led rats to the streets
Soon I step out for another smoke
And try to forget about bed sheets
Wherein we were strangers
I remember my promise told not to swear at all
They hearkened not for the anguish of Spirit
Yet heathen and unregenerate
I am not exempt
Yet unrepentant, obstinate and unyielding
Wicked, sinful and dissolute
I pour another cup and make rock my flute
To begin again at my sanctuary...












Reform (Better Than Genocide)
8-22-15


Dancing like marionettes
I am of uncircumcised lips
Say not this when you go on your day trips
Regenerate, reformed
Born again spiritually
Can anyone be as such!
We emphatically inquire
By improvement and amendment
In molds and casts
Of pewter in my vocational rehab days of such a glory
I return to tell my story
Yet to reconstruct and return to a liquid state
Aaron takes Elisheba to wife
And bears four sons
But for what but to begin new nations
A better deal than genocide
Just because by the hollow of your hands
The bible scholar understands.....










Inure
8-22-15


Palatable dignity and balance for all
For Nadab and Abihu
Just to get through to you
For Eleazar and Ithamar
To go out an see again the morning star
I walk up and down my lot in no need to go back into town
Reconstructed by my computer repaired while rebooted
As sorcerers do enchantments
And Pharaoh's heart is hardened
To which Moses is made a god
And we find this not odd
Back in the corner
We're caught up in the race
To inure and to accustom
Today I'm in a better place
And soon the sun comes up
On all of our glory
To take and have effect like ones story....