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DESECRATIONS AND VIOLATIONS___________________________________ 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.
Copyright © 2004 Chimdi Maduagwu, all rights reserved
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