Community Love (something I wrote)

by gubberningbody 1 Replies latest jw friends

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  gubberningbody

  

  In community there is warmth, and love

  Yet conformity rears its ugly head

  As you must conform or find yourself dead

  To conform or not, give in or to shove

  Reshape oneself to community's glove

  Covered by their rules, never raise your head

  Abandon yourself, go lie in your bed

  And parrot the ways, community does

  Threaten to hammer the nail that sticks up

  Or will you rebel by thinking alone

  Or will you give in and never look up

  Never to witness the stars in their home

  Never to challenge these ways that corrupt

  Abandon the truth you have in your heart

  For this bitter love they try to impart
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  truman

  I like your line about molding oneself to the community glove.

  Here is something I wrote for a college poetry class this semester:

  Obedience
  
  ‘Twas God bespoke, or someone in His Name,
  Declared obedience bears unity.
  To banish fallen nature’s bitter shame,
  I’m cleansed through their imposed morality.
  The throng of Faithful feeds on willingness
  To ask “What must I do?” and nothing more.
  Hypocrisy unquestioned will be blest;
  In submission’s shadow, merit’s born.
  But oneness grown in guilt expends the soul,
  And breeds the mindless fruit, conformity.
  Divinity must weep to see Its Whole
  So wracked by self-proclaimed authority.
  The Fallen can’t be rescued from Truth’s hooks
  While slanderers control them with their Books.