DESECRATIONS AND VIOLATIONS

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Who admitted the dog into the church…excommunicate him now…

Else the church agent be bitten to death

 

The dog is installed

And exalted in the sanctuary

Away the pious man pines

He glitters and glows beyond the sun

And out-angels the truth

Mentors and admirers, joint in atrocity

Strenuously strive

To debeast the new homo

But marks and stains long impressed

Never could a pretence do away

Why pine away oh pious man

Why sit you docile in covered piety

Arise to the battle

Behold the thin deceit decays

Our hands of help heaven do accept

Those who desecrate the word

In the sacred sanctuary of saints

Devalue nature and life and man

Oh! Precious word

Did you smile in the bosom of the dog

Dogs and goats and swine rejoice

As they proclaim in false piety

The potency of the word

Like slaves on horses and in command

They over run the course of peace

Those who desecrate the word

Prepare tombs in tons for beasts

Dogs and swine and goats reward

The tombs prepared in lists

Never to alter afterwards

Behold the sacred alter suffers

In silent service to the dog

Where is the roaring violence of old

As predicted in prophecies erased

From the codes of eternal justice

The dogs have shut the path

The old path of right actions

The perilous path full of thorns thistles and stones

Modern routes adorned with gold

They modeled for haughty admirers

Now the pious man dwells alone in barren wilderness

And gnashes his teeth in waiting

For the extinction of the echo of the dog

Across the four-squared world

Heaven below and earth above; the last first and the first last

 

Those who desecrate the word

Prepare tombs in tons for beasts

Dogs and swine and goats reward

The tombs prepared in lists

Never to alter afterwards

Behold the sacred alter suffers

In silent service to the dog

Where is the roaring violence of old

As predicted in prophecies erased

From the codes of eternal justice

The dogs have shut the path

The old path of right actions

The perilous path full of thorns thistles and stones

Modern routes adorned with gold

They modeled for haughty admirers

Now the pious man dwells alone in barren wilderness

And gnashes his teeth in waiting

For the extinction of the echo of the dog

Across the four-squared world

Heaven below and earth above; the last first and the first last

 

My eyes are up to the mountains

They traverse the hills and valleys

Across the waters of the seas and oceans

In a quest for the courage to act

Where are you oh mighty courage

My hands have moved in quaint ecstasy

Like the tutored hands of the blind on Braille

Caressing and massaging the scrolls

Discovered amid three fingered fist

Where are you oh! Mighty courage

How can I loose the scroll from the triple grip of the fist

One finger defaces the prints of old

Behold another blots newness with grease of passion

And the third dots freshness to sooth the desecration

Your mission dog is thin and tough

I of old with eyes in action

Feel the tough and yet see not

She a new with hands on the plough

Turns her back a pillar of salt

We behold not our union bound in a three fingered grip

Where is the courage to apprehend

When in vain I seek to comprehend

Amidst dark clouds erupting from the fingers

Tainted in evil colors of the kindred beasts

My strength fails and courage is diffused

Battles of life demand weapon of blood

Come oh mighty courage

Whitter you are

I seek to know

You were persecuted out of the sacred shrine in shame

Parsonage of mud where you’re muddled mourns you eternally

The barren climes and the wilderness rejected you in ignorance

Where now is the courage to act.

 

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