Poem 4 John Hick

[I've been reading this bloke who is a scholar, but appears to have reacted to the evangelical/ modernist/ fundamentalist way of putting everything (as does a part of me). A bit scary,  a bit lonely, good to wrestle through... (still not finished looking at his argument closely & weighing carefully, .... To the tune of "This ol' man, he played one.."]

This "old mate",

he saw straight 

through the spate 

of words of late, 

and got sick 

of the quick, 

lazy-ee and slick 

way we talk, 

and don't baulk 

or pop th' cork

(in OUR spout, 

t'slow words out; 

or from wine 

to drink'n dine, 

celebrate 

the fine great 

anti-hate -

Yeshua, 

who to a 

world's sewer,

came to live 

'n forgive, 

'n to seive...
the ways we live

doodle oo 
do, do, do, 
doodle oo 
do,do,
do, do, do, do, 
do, do, do..)

But I won-

der if he's

like that son

'v Zacharie's

who sent the

dis-ci-ples

to-oo ask Je-

sus if he

was the one

who was to come.

Jesus re-

plied to John

Bless'd is he-
-ee who 
holds on

see-ing the

works o-of God

though they 
may seem

a bit odd...

..not quite what

they expect-

ed they got-

the Res-
-ur-rect-

-tion 'n what-not

doodle oo do do
do, do, 
do, do, 
do, do, do..

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