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[title] => PUTTING THE CHRIST BACK IN CHRISTMAS
[time] => 2005-12-19 17:17:03
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[bodytext] => In the backstreets watch the crack sellers Spread the curse among the ghetto dwellers Confirm my words you sycomphantic fortune tellers Is this the world of beauty You created? Love and peace smack of nostalgic sixties trips As new age philosophers shake fat Madonna hips And just war graffiti decks the Gulf-bound ships To spoil,cheat,lie is to what our world seems fated Integrity and wholeness - Yours and Yours alone I long to catch a glimpse of all of what You've shown Remove this blind futility,its all that I do own I thank you God. You love all that I have hated I will not sing trite hyms as escapist interlude The death of Jesus is more than a trivial tabloid feud It's real blood and pain (our moral guardians would term it lewd) And it's in all this that You and I first related So all these years later the spell is not broken Forgive me Lord that I used You like a gambler's token All of what I feel is only part of what I have spoken Accept my outstretched hands even though they come belated [comments] => 2 [counter] => 540 [topic] => 11 [informant] => TREBOR [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 12 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ChristianPoetry )
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