Thursday, March 5, 2015

1985 (The Baptism)

They won't tell you about it
It was draped  in a blissfully festive
Dusty villages where not without a tale
And music could be heard all corners
Drunkards drunk and everyone tipsy

The old guitarist sat in the corner
Strumming the strings as ladies sang
Though he sang the loudest
But the merry men danced all day
While children clogged the carless

We had no sinners in the tent
Until that young man arrived
He spoke with a tongue so soft
Made many speak in tongues
in chaos never seen before

They did not drink petrol
Nor munch on the rich green grasses
But they were fed the body of God
And His blood they drank
shaken to a new birth

The queued like a flock down the valley
One by one to that young man draped in white
With one gasp he shoved them in
and out came a new creature
until the whole village could see

They saw sin as it came
to be the order of the day

in the midst of newness

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