God, may I know the wisdom of deep list-
en-ing? I want this quality of you.
I want to give you glory, to persist
in doing only what I see you do.
So I like him, who led me to yourself,
might caref’ly hear & see what's going on
within our world, so your good grace and health
can be spread right through all we do anon.
By all means, I now understand, he asked
some questions that would cut through to the bone.
They marvelled at that 12 yr old, aghast
at the insightful questions he intoned.
So he was not just castigating folk.
He learned his Beit Midrash, as many did,
to interact by asking, not just joke-
ing. God, I'm still a pre-Beit-Midrash kid.
Well, here I am. At times a chatter box.
Excited, and just spruiking round the place.
I’m trying to, as much as I can, fox
the snakey part of me that’s a disgrace.
I hear you say “as harmless as a dove.”
I’ve seen those doves both cooing, bowing round.
But “wise as serpent”, brings a working love
that’s calculated to help motives found
from elsewhere. As the scriptures ask: “Will that
be beneficial to those list’ning in?”
So truth & love do meet & kiss in fact
when we ask in the spirit of our King.
Audio Draft 2 (of ~70), listenin’ in
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