abrade

Abrade
1-28-16

Position by Gentiles by nature in flesh
By the method of salvation and fruit fresh
Chasing some exotic bird
Looking for something I never heard
Another show that you might know the hope of his calling
Spring will come but so will obligations to clean up this place
Yet to be excoriated for my own best interests
You make me feel so free
Stepping out for the flood-gates
You beat me to the punch
O, sweet mystery...




Abdicate
1-29-16

Wouldn't it be my luck
He puts all things under his feet
As we abdicate all ambitions to excoriate and censure strongly
At the flood-gates
Renouncing the seven things God hates
Love lingers as God's grace waits
For dispensation and stewardship
In ages and their generations
To zigzag away through the boredom and pain
This I do not know quite as often
Until I come and take you away
So a land like your own will prosper
Glancing up through the rain
In a land like your own
Lord, may the bible scholar understand
Wouldn't it be my blessing....




Makeshift
1-29-16

Eat ye everyone of his vine
And everyone of his fig tree
Make your agreement with me by a gift
And choose to work the graveyard shift
This here will be my work in a land of corn and wine
And a land of vineyards and bread
O, so much alive yet dead
Hearken not to Hezekiah
Another makeshift
In six hours I get my lift
Of temporary and experimental substitutes
At your stopgap
Feeling my duhkka at five on the dot
Not of works lest anyone should boast....