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Love Your Neighbour
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By Michael P. Johnson
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Love Your Neighbor

 

Since birth, I’ve lived this side of town

I’ve tried to do my part

The thought I’ve let my neighbour down

Sends pain aching my heart

 

To all I spread God’s Truth and Light

Life’s perfect living Bread

Teaching of love relieving plight

Raising the walking dead

 

But who’ll believe a word I say

Who’ll think The Truth not strange?

Turn from the devil’s selfish way

Their shameful life to change

 

How can man cause blind eyes to see

How close one is to hell

Perhaps to blame is you and me

Failing The Truth to tell

 

It’s such a shame to see them die

Without the Father’s Son

How can we break the devil’s lie?

For victory to be won

 

Through Christ I’ll never cry defeat

God’s Standard’s flying high

I’ll fight the foe until he’s beat

Or know the reason why?

 

Without Salvation’s healing kiss

Without God’s guiding hand

The boat of life countless will  miss

Bound for the Promised Land

 

Yet in The Lord I’ll still persist

I’ll break the devil’s chain

Even when neighbours still resist

I’ll try and try again…..

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Submitted: Friday, November 16, 2012

Last Updated: Saturday, November 17, 2012

About the Poet
I never wrote a word of poetry in my life. Till the day Jesus took my hand and touched my soul.....I invite your response. However most poems are not about me! Very few are. But the feed-back good, bad or indifferent is always desired. Not meant to offend, but I write about many things in many a guise. Of life, death, lost, found, saved, backsliders, new comers, repenting souls, doubting hearts, heathens, Christians, fire, water, Satan's daughter, wallowing in sin, saved, made sound walking in Light, graceful righteous. Suffering, ecstatic, bored, excited, sad, delighted, Sick, well, lame, able, living, dying, etc. etc. etc. Writing about anything, everything and everyone as the spirit leads. All meant to reveal, waken, revive, encourage, shame, help. Gladden, pick up, exalt, portrait, liberate. Again over 99% of my work is not about me. Although at times I write as though I were or am. Speaking e.g. in the first person. This is quite common even in the bible itself. Prophets speak of themselves, then God speaks, again the prophet, then God......Quite often it's difficult to distinguish whom it is that at any given time is speaking or narrating.

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