Mathew before Ethiopia
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John G.Hall
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Posted: 16 May 2005 Word Count: 86 Summary: Traditionally Mathew travelled to Ethiopia to preach.He was a taxman before he met Jesus. Related Works: Judas Lives • |
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Mathew before Ethiopia
I counted on him
more often than my money
that poor unrestored saviour
and what did it profit me.
Only uncollected debts
and words words words
poured from a ever open
galilean peasants gawp.
Yes he spent his meagerness
on everyone who asked for it,
and even those that refused
were blessed by his surplus.
Now I am back in Capharnaum
a tax man smelling of copper
a Roman spy in the synagogue
foreclosing on my afterlife.
He'd have hated that.
John G.Hall(C)2005
I counted on him
more often than my money
that poor unrestored saviour
and what did it profit me.
Only uncollected debts
and words words words
poured from a ever open
galilean peasants gawp.
Yes he spent his meagerness
on everyone who asked for it,
and even those that refused
were blessed by his surplus.
Now I am back in Capharnaum
a tax man smelling of copper
a Roman spy in the synagogue
foreclosing on my afterlife.
He'd have hated that.
John G.Hall(C)2005
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