Best Backslider Poems

Sin took away your Holy Spirit
Sin took away my Will
Sin took away my Praying
Sin took away my Fasting
Sin took away my Tithing
But Sin could not take away your Word In My Heart...

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The backslider stepped into the chapel like an angel,
Outwardly, he is full of piety,
Inwardly, he is only a pity.
True bliss left him, even purity and dignity.
Though he mingled with the  Churchyard 
And in prayer session, he prays even louder,
So you get inspired and pray...

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6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot 
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look

Indecisive ones with pure intentions
While restlessly calm fidget sitting still
In comes independence speech invented 
Declaring loyalty but not to kneel

16 revoke as...

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The Backslider
By: Tom Wright
2/17/99

Do you follow a path
encumbered with weeds?
have they seemingly appeared
from your planted seeds?

Are the tracks you once followed
now faint and dim?
Becoming tracks of the world
and no longer of Him?

Does some inner longing
tell you "reset your course"?
Have you so soon forgotten
your power source?

Has...

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