Oh, esteemed clergy, heed to the lament,
Of laity's voice saddled with virtues not lent.
So also grasp the virtues and never go askew,
We all misstep, but confront the truths you knew.
Pride is tacked with injustice and palls of deceit,
Assert no purity from a tongue of the same suit.
You preach of love, yet starving us of that light,
You assert faith that still craves a discerning sight.
This is not animosity, but a call to an upright quest,
So you would thrive in honesty away a worldly jest.
Truth waver not with altitude; retract the craving for affluence,
They seduce until shadow of death draws to a confluence.
Be converted to convert the laity with words of delight,
It's only when you're true that God heals our
plight.
Rights Reserved
Mankind The Clergy often goad
Into walking The Narrow Road,
The other track not for the fold
As in The Parable Foretold...
But - Gosh - it is a disguised load
To the cycles the path rode,
The walkers feat aiming to mold
Into a pair at home with cold
No knowledge of the Exact Yoke
The package is saving a folk
Like workers facing a dress code
Offices granting an abode...
Yes, it's a big or little Shame
That I have accepted the same
Vision - wise half swell of A Node
In water not drowned but A Toad.
Lecture Given By Clergy
We were given a lecture by the clergy,
With much energy exhibited in liturgy,
Done deal;
No appeal,
Who later had been accused of perjury.
Jim Horn
Kavanaugh was part of the clergy so he
had said.
every clergy is an ox
wearing heavy yoke
drawing wooden plow
across the farmland
of people’s vibrant sins
endeavoring to weed
the mess in their souls
Greek= kleroi=share or inheritance
State of ordained men in the Church
as the kids begin to come out
again
to declare the violation of their innocence to the world
so that finally these pompous pedophiliac pederasts
can be dragged out of their lairs in order to face the world for
what they are
(not what they claim to be)---
the coaches twitch like the catholic clergy,
presently pissing their practice pants &
“holy” getups
in hopes that they will not be the next on the
chopping block---
meanwhile,
another collective gasp is heard by those who never thought for a minute that such
hostile homophobia
which comes hand in hand within the realm of
organized sports & organized religion
could possibly be a cover-up
for what was really brewing
just beneath the surface---
one has to wonder just how many
freudian slips it takes
to get to the center of a
child molester.
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