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Reflections, Poetry, and Prose from the depths of the Midnight Ocean.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. Psalm 130
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant. After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inwards parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
Wherefore the law is holy, and the Commandment Holy, and just, and good. Rom7:12
Sifatai tiftach- u'fi yagid- tehilatecha!
- If I open my lips- let my mouth- declare Your praise!
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SHADOWS AND DUST Aug 4, 2008 7:02 pm
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I wrote this last night, hope you enjoy friends. I adapted the old Roman saying of life consisting of "shadows and dust," a bit.

Shadows and Dust

Sun streaked fields of amber wheat and rye
each ye yields- more precious than I.
Through labors in dust and toiled strife
comes a sweaty browed and blistered life.
With wind swept plains of golden grains
-from birth thy scent of heaven wanes-
she waxes with servitude and iron wrought
yoked with oxen- but one, be cursed with thought!

By what shall then a man number his years-
sweltering days, lunar floods, or jars of tears
when all thy wicked kin, be dead in sin
what hath I but to again- walk therein-
as beast of burden reviled in dust-
and consume away my days with unslaked lust?

Rocking rye and furrowed crops of gold
thy beast who tills, lives as a tale foretold-
like bullworks under Pharaoh's whips of old
following commands of men- they die to uphold.
For a mother in travail- should we weep and mourn
for the little one's into this wickedness borne!
Hear! O' ye cry for Lady Wisdom- all whom believe
know ye well how sore she grieves!
For even if she springs up as a desert rose
her life be laden and riddled with woes!

O' you sun streaked fields of amber wheat and rye
yes, what each ye yields- thought, more precious than I!
For I have naught to offer but perhaps to inspire-
for my spirit refuses to work of Pharaoh's hire!
But all ye beasts of burden, hath but to inquire
'seek ye first,' then shalt thou acquire-
For this- it's written, be the Lord's desire.
For ye shiny plowshares and shackles He can bust
it is your souls- then, that be covered in rust!
Yes, work and toil therein- you must...
to become ye more- than but shadows and dust...

...shadows and dust.

Gb,
sabrefire

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