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Prayer For Governments
Oh Father God, we pray for all governments
That they be just & helpful to all its citizens
Oh Lord Jesus, we pray for every government
That they serve as bastions of every citizen's sentiment
Oh Holy Spirit, we pray for our administration
That it may bring peace & prosperity to our nation
This we pray to our One True God. Amen.
-12/25/2015
(Dumarao)
*Prayer Poems for Christmas
for every bomb dropped, a thousand stars cry tear lights ~ for reblooming earth
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8.1.26
Surely your turning
of things upside down
is not but the potter’s clay.
You’ve done it with every
damn thing in this world
from the start till the present day.
I guess it’s impressive,
that which you’ve done -
blinding the world with your sham.
Making it look like you care for us all,
but the truth is you don’t give a damn.
Like the snakes that you are,
you creep in the night,
slithering into seats for to stay.
Then the families who actually
care for the folks,
you label and put them away.
But shall the thing framed
say of he has framed it,
“he doesn’t have understanding”?
Your disrespect wreaks
through your pathetic smile,
but time is an interesting thing.
For there’s only so much of it
left till your through!
Then the King will come back for what’s his.
Then those families will be
right there back in the streets
handling all of his biz…
Isaiah 29: 15-16
Nations, like tides, rise and fall with the numbers,
A swelling crowd is a promise and a peril.
In youth, the many are labor and armies;
In age, they are a weight upon the state.
Leaders count heads, not lives,
Calculating strength in the aggregate.
A vast populace fuels markets,
Fills the factories, swells the tax rolls.
Policy bows to the short-term reward,
Blind to the slow erosion beneath.
Food, water, shelter—finite and frail—
Are treated as inexhaustible myths.
Yet the wheel turns,
And the balance sheet of nature
Will one day collect its debt.
By then, the architects may be gone,
But their legacy will stand—
An empire too heavy to sustain.
Time is a funny thing,
time does not always seem real.
Governments and their rulers,
come and go.
Some are good to their people and country,
while others only destroy.
Can they be brought to their knees,
maybe ~ sometimes?
When we are living in today,
we have real time.
Can we now see or understand,
the many years that will come?
Then one day we awaken,
to that far off date.
Now here in the new real time of 2025,
we say where did all the time go?
In their day many read the book 1984,
some laughed at it as it was the talk of the town.
Some saying,
this would never happen.
Now in real time of 2025,
many years later what do we find?
Today many are saying,
we are now living in this book of 1984.
The question is,
are we?
Some say yes,
others still feel it was just a crazy book.
Have you read it,
only the reader can decide.
Top secret
why do we keep them
and does the truth
really scare us
Crazy governments
And their leaders too
Want to raise down
Missiles on me and you
Psychopathic, maniacs
Disturbed megalomaniacs
Bringing down death
With falsehood and lies
Manifesting fear from the skies
And what are we doing
Why don't we protest
We should create civil unrest
From the East to the West
Pile on the pressure
On these governments
Show we've had enough of their wars
We want peace so won't take it anymore
Don't let them push us to the edge of extinction
One second to midnight
So stand with conviction
Let's create a mass global power eviction
And drive them out of power
And manifest a new way
Not just finding new faces to replace
Those warmongers who we just kicked out
We need a paradigm shift without any doubt.
Governments can't run companies
That statement still rings in my ears
Governments can't run companies
If that was your board of directors
If that was the man you paid
to represent your company
if the CEO for your board of directors
came out and said we can't run company's
Then you'd give him the sack
you'd vote for another man
that could run the company
creating profitable investments
Governments can't run companies
because they are to quick to sell them
and use the money to make themselves look good
Governments should be investing your money
Every day they use your money
to pay for training organisations
Money that gets spent producing no profit
Money that could be used to make company's
The Teachers could become Managers
The Students could become Employees
The country's could be earning money
Instead of just spending money
Creating products to sell overseas
creates profit for your country
creating employment reduces
spending for the country
Every week you pay tax
as investors we should be asking
how are you investing our money
to make this country better
I can't understand
why all governments
wouldn't support my ideas
they get into power
based on the promise
of creating work for our people
they get into power
based on promises
that improve our lives
encouraging people to invest
creates company's
the more company's you create
the more tax the government gets
the less unemployment you have
the less the government has to pay
investing improves lives
people get into stealing
selling drugs
and crime to make money
teach them to create jobs
and they make money
by helping others
reducing crime
investing improves lives
people with jobs
build houses
a healthy building system
makes a healthy country
people that have money
to feed their families
are more settled
reducing anger about injustice
if other countries have money
they can afford to buy
your products
helping each other become successful
creating work in africa
creates customers in your future
creating peace creates futures
granted you can't sell guns
but you can sell chocolate
grated you can't sell bombs
but imagine just what you can sell
and how many jobs that would create
This city
has a spire
in the middle,
the needle
of Ireland's despair,
cost us money
and lots of our riches,
this is our city so fair,
a government
in ruling
our ruination,
as the clock
in the Liffey
Stood still,
their time
is running out,
a country so wild ,
yet so beautiful,
yet this is all
we have got,
rocked by mass
unemployment,
emigration heavy
on everyone's heart.
A government yes
They destroyed us,
as they made us pay
For what they ill got,
bailing out these
so called scrooges,
fair is the state
of our nation ,
poor in everyone's heart,
this is the state
of our country
Rich and peasants
miles apart,
gambling
our children's futures,
as job creation,
plays the necessary part,
now this is the state
of our country,
Ireland
A nation
in despair
Governments
Governments seem here to stay
With the public's money they waste away
On useless things that do the people no good
Get rid of governments I think we should.
We work and toil on our lands
While they take our money from our hands
A land of opportunity for some
A worker's work is never fun.
We try to build our homes to live
While governments drain us like a sieve
Debt they seem to pile up instead
With financial problems over our heads.
Our governments should look after us
Instead they treat us with disgust
Why do we have to put up with them
Those governments created by men.
This life is a lie
Thieves of many kinds
Look around glutney and greed
Creating war
Taking lives
No justice is real
Nation against nation distruction and death
Killing there own home and abroad
Blood on there conscious
They dont care
Blame it on religion so they think they have a reason
Many souls lost a baby, a child, a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a daughter, a son
It's evil at it's worse
Troops from all over fighting a governments war
Salvaging black gold for there own
To be the greater the bigger the ritcher
Evil wicked politics you are a disgrace
To the human race!
Conflicts of evil
Our soldiers fall
Fathers and sons
Families trawl
Their emotions for life
After the fact
Their loved ones
Taken in patriot act
Flown home with the flag
Decoration of mourn
Where today they have passed
Colleagues torn
Here today
In-turned tomorrow
Hero's them all
Billions of sorrow
A new future begins
Loved ones of the lost
For alive they are precious
Not here, pay their cost
Pentagon, Senate
Parliament, Commons
Many of the lost
Have nothing to live on
Proud to enlist
As they die for their flag
Governments embarrassment
As they continue to drag
We have murderer's in jail
Roaming our streets
Hero's family taxes
Puts shoe's on their feet
This picture tells me
Somethings so wrong
You can die for your country
But they won't play along
" inspired by the line in Disposable Wisdom, by Carolyn Devonshire >
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