Category : Poems

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They gave him twelve months
To serve that first year.
Times ten made a decade stuck inside there.
.
Chip away the flesh
To reach a heart of stone
Always hang up angrily
That prison hell-a-phone.
.
First one; then both parents died, while he sat in that cell.
Adding to his guilt
Which led to endless hell.
.
So he walks his laps,
And he circles his wagons,
To lose his old ways,
And to slay his old dragons.
.
Finally released 
With no job and no money.
On his way out they said...
"SEE YOU SOON"
...while thinking it funny.
.
What's the worst that could happen...
...considering his plight?,
as he wanders 'round aimlessly,
through YOUR town at night.
.
What could go wrong
with that prison door's revolving? 
But for Jesus and the Bible,
and his soul now evolving.
.
Twisting in the winds of change, where nothing really changes.
Crossing mountains in bare feet, 
that open to more ranges.
.
"There's nothing to see here folks".

"Keep moving right along."

"Its just some homeless wanderer, singing olden prison songs."
.
He's singing...
"SEE YOU SOON",
as you bolt up all your doors.
And you sweat out all your bullets from out of all your pores.
.
NO JOB.
NO MONEY.
NO PARENTS.
NO HOPE.
NO SKILLS,
UN COUNSELED,
NO WAY TO COPE.
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They gave him twelve months
To serve that first year.
Times ten made a decade,
now homeless in fear.
But he wanders right past,
all your bolted up doors,
right into that church,
where he falls on all fours.
.
With tears streaming down
his NOMADIC old face,
while society sat screaming,
"WHAT A DISGRACE" !
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Alas, judge not
lest ye be judged the same way!
Would YOU have found church?on YOUR release day?
.
Like David 
and Saul
and yes ol' Obadiah.
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Like the wise men 
who rode
to the baby Messiah.
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As servants, they too 
made faith filled decisions,
and chose narrow paths
from out if their prisons.
.
So be thankful old NOMAD
it's never too late,
you'll not need to see
another rusty old gate.
.
Go find a church
and fellowship with those,
who have pasts washed away, like dirty prison clothes.
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