You Be the Judge

The seer sat at the postern gate and
exchanged words with the pharisee thus:

Our city is strong! We are
surrounded by
the walls of salvation!

Strive to enter this narrow
door for
many who seek to will fail

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Grant me a patient story.
Read it in me slowly.
End it with a whisper
Gently calling it to rest.

What did Shackleton take his men out to see?
A frigid flag shaking in the Antarctic breeze,
marking the most extreme point of the planet?
No, I tell you: something far greater than this.

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I hadn’t lounged there
Lazing in the sun
For more than five minutes
Before I saw her
Pawing at my leg

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We have shared so well,
you and I, from love’s deep cup,
and shall drink once more…

let us not speak of
silences so sacred they
are best unbroken

Lightning never rings the doorbell
It’s more the unanticipated guest
A nocturnal moving of your favored cheese
Or an arresting act of God

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I will be the one who holds you
I will have your back
I will never disappoint you, baby
Never jump the tracks

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