Anil Deo Poet Verse

I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants

Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF

Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason they fled HERE to Native Indian lands

Catholics to Lord Baltimore's Maryland, Puritans to Massachusetts;
Persecuted Quakers to Penn's America - for debts Kings owed the Admiral

(Indentured white servants came in thousands, here and in the Islands
There's no shame; we are all sinners, or erstwhile peasants, made Kings)

Don't dare preach to me to abandon my dress, language, culture
While you want nothing of Jesus, and His Gospel that saves sinners like us

THE SECOND COMING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, OR ON FACEBOOK
NOR WILL IT BE APPROVED BY THE MILITARY, UN, OR the WHITE HOUSE

This world has enough of such CHRIST claimants
Even Jehovah's Witnesses tell me to forget my ancestors

So she can rest assured, make the world safer for Imperialism
No, Sir. No Ma'am. Jesus never asked me to lose my language, wisdom ...

To become akin to POPES, priests, Luther, Calvin, Puritans of Boston
Who killed four Quakers before 1660; just 40 years post-Mayflower arrival!

THE SECOND COMING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, OR ON FACEBOOK
NOR WILL IT BE APPROVED BY THE MILITARY, UN, OR the WHITE HOUSE

That was not all; Roger Williams fled Boston, for fear of forced deportation
Was fair to Natives, now America's first Baptist. Not so for Anne Hutchinson

She was expelled from MBC (Massachusetts) when pregnant with child #8
She never survived the flight, but did open up Portsmouth (Rhode Island)

So when we think those South Africans of Indian descent must change ...
I ask, As Columbus wanted change? As the Puritans? Those slaveowners?

Thank God the Slaves kept their African culture in America
And made Christianity BETTER than ever, gifting us such SAINTS as Dr. King!

So there!

THE SECOND COMING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, OR ON FACEBOOK
NOR WILL IT BE APPROVED BY THE MILITARY, UN, OR the WHITE HOUSE

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Anil Deo September 17, 2018 at 11:25 AM Lisa, you know that if you promise to read, I will ALWAYS write (4 my pillar of Poetry, no tyrant in her. shalom, shalom as always). Peace & Healing to Carmelo. Luv2Mama

Lisa Ricci September 17, 2018 at 6:29 AM Good Morning Anil. I won't even pretend to write an appropriate response to your message to the world for you have stated it profoundly. "So there!" (ha ha) THE SECOND COMING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, OR ON FACEBOOK NOR WILL IT BE APPROVED BY THE MILITARUN, NOR WHITE HOUSE. Your words have been heard. May this day find you well. Shalom Always.