<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Poem: To Church]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Just got back from an incredibly insane week with Creekside Church youth on Houseboats on Lake Shasta and had some time while i was there to stick some words together:</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>To Church</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">why run after what you can simply choose to be?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">oasis of mirage in a sun-drenched desert</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">dessert of list-filled proportions</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">served to you on an already full to bursting stomach.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">teasing&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">trying to slip the mask of your face over your face</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">to get you to somehow believe that you can become</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">what you already are</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">what the very D.N.A. in your</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">newly formed person declares you to be</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">week after week</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">marching your way to your box</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">[one size does not fit all]</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">reserving your spot with the glare in your eyes</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">before settling in comfortably to enjoy the show</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">the pretty puppet man with the dancing strings</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">seems particularly impressed by his exe&#8230; exo&#8230; skeleton today</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">outside, in the middle of town</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">a recovering drug addict is seen helping an old lady to cross the street&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/pomes-by-brett-fish-in-2015">[For some of the other poems i have come up with in 2015, click here] </a></strong></p>
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