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The Collection Plate Is Not a Payphone

The preachers say they have my God on speed dial A ladder to the heavens once again Operator, put me through directly This time I just don’t wanna go through them I fear my calls may not have been delivered And maybe I don’t have the time to wait Now I am concerned that I’ll be buried And that the payphone in the church was just a plate I surely can’t contest the pulpit masters Indeed I have transgressed a righteous law But if it is God’s laws that I have broken Why is it a man who flaps his jaw What man can say that he will end my quarrel With the One that I offended through and through Is there a mercy store with clerks who sell forgiveness? Is there anything that God Himself will do? Never will they have to pass my message I will place my own confession in His hand At least if I'm beyond my rights to do it For that I will not answer to a man Kyle Ezra Kriticos

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 11/9/2011 5:00:00 AM
almost forgot to vote that SEVEN for ya'!
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Date: 11/9/2011 5:00:00 AM
A-to the -MEN brother! You got the "IT FACTOR"...no doubt kid! all 7's from me so far. I got you listed as my favorite Soup Poet. Sorry you have not surpassed my Drunken Hero, Charles "HANK" Bukowski ..............................................................................(*yet)
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Date: 9/7/2011 10:54:00 PM
Just so special, That 4th verse toppled my mind but the whole poem tells such a special message. Love, Elizabeth
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