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Separation (Free verse) by Dovina
Scripture makes clear
let not evil corrupt.
Look at the Lutherans
liberal Methodists
tolerating beer
smoking, dancing
sunk as low as the Catholics
Neither hot nor cold
lukewarm Laodiceans
ready to be spewed
from the mouth of God.
God prefers an honest sinner,
the preacher drones,
to watered down make-believers.
Might as well lie
with a bottle of Baileys
and a sensuous man
as to indulge in a bottle of beer.
So she followed the sermon
thought herself Methodist at best
almost righteous
and plump.
But the sermon changed
In an office cloister
Your sin makes a sham of our faith
Disobedience turns the Lordâs face
abandons your soul to the foe.
If we hold a sinner not to account
Then the doctrine of separation is nil
So she walked away from her childhood faith
her fatherless son wrapped warm in her arms
And the sermon this fine Sunday morning,
Giving a little to the poor.
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