confession

Confession
4-30-09

I bring in and celebrate Mayday
Like last year and the year before
Checking out adult websites for easy prey
she doesn't need to be a beauty to be my whore
At least this is something I'm willing to confess
A quick fix for peace among quarters that remain in a terrible mess
Living like a pig paranoid of swine flu yet still I cast my pearls
As I reflect on days when all I'd crave were cigarettes and girls
And for being a man of God this is a lousy rhyme
Every Christian has a besetting sin
Every saint is guilty of his carnal crime...




Stranger In A Strange Land
4-30-09

By faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter
And we wonder, when in this, was he indeed living a lie
Choosing instead to suffer like a pig to the slaughter
I jot this in a notebook one of four hundreds
In my pell mell of a pig sty
Inspired by details
Learning at the pace of tortoises and snails
Rich in Spirit to know God's love never fails
At peace even with those who protest to save the whales
Stoner snacks at the feet of my love seat
Choosing to hear the riff as more essential as the beat...




If I Live Till Sixty
4-30-09

So many words I jot down in my book
Taking some twenty-five repetitions
To learn, con and remember
So many ideas and quotes to me like a fish on a steel hook
As one would start a fire with a single ember
Wasting coffee
I'll have to count it as an offering to the gods
And if I live till sixty
I will take up my golf clubs and fishing rods
God just might have upon me compassion
Yet in the meantime I partake in his grace
That is my portion and my ration
Say rather, God willing
Than to say I know we will....




God Hates Just As Well
4-30-09

The truth so reads that God is love
Yet we conclude there are things that even he does hate
To handle thorns of roses a man needs a glove
As we conclude a man can invent but he cannot create
Everything we see has been here since the beginning of time
Yet we analyze the seven days of the creation of the world
To work it into another rhyme
Playing closer attention to Metallica's bassist
God hates partiality but still he loves the racist
Those who grow up maltreated
End up developing the vice....