Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden, then they started eating meat
Away from plentiful fruits and vegetables, they started a fleshly retreat
Unwittingly sliding down Jacob''s ladder
Man falling from heaven down into dark matter
Away from the light of spirit
Closer to the root in this world and no longer intuit
Taking deep dives and swims in the infamous cesspool
Aimlessly moving through waste, playing a devil's fool
Now man is eating science projects like a sweet treat
So many manufactured food-like items that's Beyond Meat
Just wandering and meandering; meandering and wandering
A futile external search for sustenance, peace, and truth finds man perpetually scampering
Lost Paradise
Paradise Lost
How much time and energy will man exhaust?
Lost Paradise
Paradise Lost
How long will man pay this hefty cost?
What is flesh?
Is it weak?
Is it meat?
Does it stink?
Only when dead, or maybe even alive.
Flesh is the part that owes a surprise
To the inner you, the favored you, the spirit you
Is flesh really you?
Why is it so hard to let go?
We can live without it
But it’s hard to acknowledge
Vegetarian or veganism is a road that’s least traveled
Because it requires discipline to say no
An obedience to say yes, and
A will to let go of eating flesh
To die to flesh,
To say “good bye flesh”
And live without flesh.
Besides, it’s only meat, not always tender
Sometimes foolish, and other times weary
But most times a distraction from purpose and destiny.
Are you willing to give up your meat?
Get rid of flesh to get rid of flesh.
Choose to die daily.
To learn how to recite koine Greek
That I may drink from the life-giving creek
Finish reading the words of Plato
To grow my knowledge thereto
Give up eggs and milk
So I can fully wear the white silk
Travel this dark world of hellfire
That I may hear Christ’s silver lyre
Be better for aeons to see
So I can become a marble tree
The world is full of fake friends nothing is real,
Everyday the innocent in jail are denied appeal,
All these humans love doing is to corrupt 'n' steal,
Extolling virtues of veganism with missionary zeal,
Day in day out they are obsessed with pilling weal.
We are in days where people are no longer kind,
And in an era where true love is so hard to find,
No marriage, only just a boyfriend or a girlfriend,
What they love doing is to cheat, lie and pretend,
They are still living as if the Lord will not descend.
In every government institutions there exists a mole,
Receiving promotions 'n' adding titles to their profile,
Making the needy people cry but oh the clay is vile,
With torn and bleeding hearts they give a fake smile,
It's a great debt the poor lives to pay to human guile,
© Kelmwa
Horsemeat Scandal in Europe
By Elton Camp
“Beef” is a word that’s loosely applied
Although to most, cow meat is implied
It’s off to the slaughterhouse with old Mag
It seems it’s been the same with the old nag
Let’s hope you have a stomach that’s strong
It’s been shown they’ve done this right along
But, the facts I’m forced to admit, of course
There’s no special hazard in eating a horse
A person’s food choice is a cultural thing
Chinese eat dogs, to the mind does spring
In other places, people will eat a rat
To me, plenty is wrong with that
If I’ve ever eaten horse, I didn’t know it
Otherwise, I likely would up throw it
Nor would I choose a taste of a cat,
But I’d greatly prefer it to eating rat
“So hungry I could eat a horse,” we say
But, in Europe, many have done that way
Should we check beef sold in the USA?
I hope it says “Moo” and not “Neigh”
It’s true that veganism has its benefit
At least eating beef, I think I’ll quit
Then there’s no problem if they say
“We tested and found horse DNA”
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