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Beguiled

Beguiled

Befooled voodoo stained glass sainted stories 
Embodied golden alter lies worshiped
Wined wafers body sanctified promises
Bloody nails thorn wooded idolatrous crosses
Burnt sacrificial crucifixions sinful feared
Confessionals
Used repented
Control

Pompous ignorant banners flying clandestine
Stolen heavens dangled carrot
Eternal peace
Self-rewarding
Love

Caesar’s dead laurels destined Roman spear

Rich laws indoctrinated poor uneducated
Continued centuries absurd pretence
Wealthy fat bloated
Beggars spirituality
Destroying sanities stolen festivities

Temples agog 
Stone cathedral mosque prays churches
Grand established faith
Besotted light innocent
Ignorant backbones
Repudiated
Truth

Beguiled

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 2/23/2009 1:53:00 PM
Well brother I am reading this piece and you are not holding back on that particular church.. I maybe off but the images that they identified with from the time of the crusaders are evident in this piece. Never fully understood the idea of confessing to another man who is as much of a sinner as I am. well done.
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