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Waterguy

(302 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 01:16 AM Sunday

Jesus was only the first

Whoa,
everybody wants to belong
everything I say is wrong
What can I do,
when you don't understand a word.

They use that name in vain
They say if you don't know Jesus
you are cursed.

Was there a purpose,
A reason,
Was it easy,

What is joy
Is there a season
did you ever walk by
someone with no hope
and wished you could help
but felt you couldn't

and felt vexed
and just moved along

it ain't easy being defenseless,
being poor, being downtrodden,
for any reason, whoever you are,

you see it in others
you see it in different species
where you can relate

It's very old
and horribly true

no matter what you invent
to mask the tragedy

Once,
there was this Mother Teresa

And they said, she didn't help
- you could put this all in the back of your mind
somehow

it had to come down to the collective mind

literally, that's what they said, those corporate giants,

Those techies,

bitcoin's and AI's - or maybe it was an A1 sauce
on a barbeque pit

cooked up on the East side of Chicago

where kids die by stray bullets every week

and it never makes the news.





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