For the Sake of Sodom

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For the Sake of Sodom

Oh Lord, high and mighty

Hold not your hand away

Keep not Your words from us

Let not our fears betray

How far we have fallen -

How far left still to go 

For the sake of Sodom -

Lord, let it not be so.

For the sake of the fasting

On their knees all around

For the sake of the faithful

Burn us not to the ground.

If You find the righteous 

If there only be but ten -

Do not forever condemn us 

For a million wicked men.

 

~ Infertile Ground ~

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This world is like a murky wood

Its men all tall, tenacious trees

While women flower into fragrant buds

Flocked in virtues like a cloud of bees.

But once clear paths are overgrown

By many a rooting root

Once bright meadows slumber dull -

The song and sun now cold and mute.

The trees that spring twist and stoop

No more to stand for a thousand years

And at their side, no flowers bloom -

Only tawdry thistles flourish here.

~ Time ~

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The body grows outside the soul

And facilitates the oath

To binding, hold the two as whole

And carefully bear their growth.

But if the soul should tarry still

And slowly drift behind

The body works to it’s own will

Like most of humankind.

The body grows outside the mind –

The church heart beats an earthly toll

To slow the body down to find –

It is the clergy of the soul.