Strength is a Four-Letter Word to God

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Open Poetry #24

Strength is a Four-Letter Word to God

Astro
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since 2003-01-08

Posts 69
Ca.

0 posted 2003-01-16 03:41 PM

Ink the engravement
  Of God's name
The past has been defamed
  And bereavement
Is for the strong
While the weak and lame
Lose grip on this world
  To grasp the lion's mane.

By His strength will I be dragged
Across the nation
Undrugged and drenched in emancipation;
Freed, don't you see?
While the strong feed on the flesh of the weak.
  Unseen,
  The greed of the masses.
  Sex is the drug of the nation,
  T.V. is the political tactic
Corrupted in character
Diluted in devotion
Until the pupils peel back in dilation
  Eclipsing the soul like a black hole
  The unholy sun of reruns
  Burning coal fires to feed the machine.

These are the flames of Wall Street warriors
Stoking their stocks and bonds
Until higher and higher
Are set the stakes for loss.
Different from the stakes
  Upon which witches burn
  But not that different.
For progress is an incorrigible need
And only the strong survive.

While the weak will ween from the
Green milk of greed,
Like crumbling brown leaves
Will the obstinate be
  As they continue to ingest
  Their corruptible seed.
And the cold will kill
The stems on their tree.

  Mother Earth is subject
  To the Father, the King
And those that turn to her as a creed
Will miss the ultimate, overpowering strength.

GOlDsparklESS
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since 2001-12-13

Posts 428
central nj

1 posted 2003-01-16 05:48 PM

"By His strength will I be dragged
Across the nation
Undrugged and drenched in emancipation;
Freed, don't you see?"

this is a mad cool revolutionary thing. utopia now! likelikelike it a lot

GG
Member Elite

since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

2 posted 2003-01-16 06:28 PM

I like this alot!!

For the theme that your saying, you still kept it completely original, which is hard to do.

I agree with what you're saying.. if I translated right

if not, well, I'm not sorry.
But so many people look to the world and earth for strength.. and they miss the one who created that. sad really

Always, Alyssa

- And so it was that time stood still -
(blink, breathe, stand, fight)

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