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Ship of Fools

Mine enemy is
My family.
Mine enemy is
Mine own.

Mine enemy
Does not talk with me.
Mine enemy
Changed their tone.

What once was
Sacred through and through,
They now won't
Speculate.

They take what
They can get with who...
Has lured them
With the bait.

So took the bait,
To be approved,
The hook, the line,
The sinker.

Together in the net
All grooved,
Not one of them
A thinker.

But in the net,
All tightly caught,
They lie,
They do not swim.

For net won't let
Them have a thought,
To sail the sea
For Him.

"The sea is calm."
The net it mocks,
"All's well,
No need convert.

The Ship is built
On many rocks,
So stay
You won't get hurt."


But out at sea
Typhoons, they stormed,
A tempest,
Furored force.

Where schools of fish
Swim, well informed,
To help Ship
Stay the course.

And back on shore,
In nets approved,
The fish bask in
Sun, hot.

For they have theirs,
All net behooved,
With bells and smells...
Of rot.

JMJ
Long-Skirts
12/26/03
 
 

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