Day: February 5, 2014

In honor of Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich gave our spirit proper place.

He showed us courage as a  space to dwell.

He wrote for us and left us with   his  grace

With hope he might speak and he might tell.

So many people ignored Fascist speech

And lived with mind cut off from  their own soul

With pen in hand he wrote to reach

And touch us as we strive towards the whole.

Expelled from his own country, he wrote on

Continuing during  tortuous war long years

He lived, he loved ,he wrote, he died and then

His books continue to dispatch our fears.

For many men have lived and have destroyed.

Yet Tillich showed  us how to face the  void

Take now your bitter heart

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I loved you once,and now you’re gone

Such grief,such sorrow.

I loved you once,but now you’ve run

Not back  tomorrow.

I loved you once until I saw

Your bitter heart

II loved you yet you had a  flaw

Inside you’re sharp.

I loved you, now my heart is raw,

pierced by your dart.

Where has all the loving gone?

Such sweet emotion.

Where has all the loving gone?

I had no notion.

Your  face was just a mask

Created for the task

Of winning hearts.

Your heart was steel and wire

Hardened by anger’s fire…

Where should I start?

Begone,false words and songs

You did me such wrong..

I can’t forgive.

Begone you hypocrite

Quit this poetic writ

And let me live

LET ALL THE WORLD IN JOYFUL SLAVERY WORK,FOR THY GOD AND KING,THE FREE MARKET AND THE HATERS OF LIFE

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I had a very bright idea y.Hearing the condemnation of people living on huge disability benefits of £80 a week or jobseekers  over ample allowance of £65 per week,it occurred to ne that it was very evil  for birds to sit in trees and sing,when they could be doing something more useful to contribute  to society and increase the gross domestic product.Similarly frogs,spiders,toads.trees,clouds should all be forced to work and to achieve government targets set for them by e.g .Nick Clegg or George Osborne.Indeed every  living thing should pay its own way.And if Jesus came back to earth he should not be allowed to wander around telling stories.He should be put to work in a factory unless he had £30,000 or so to go to the University of Tunbridge Wells to do  a degree in Carpentry or Woodwork.Anyway there would be no fish in the sea or birds in the air.They would all be at work or in prison.All must contribute to the GDP or die in the attempt.Amen,I say to you,do not harm an hair on the head of one of my creatures  or you will be cast into outer darkness.And after Westminster that will be a nasty surprise.Look into your heart and see what you find there before you destroy even one bat ,spider or ant.