Proverbs by Papi

Note: The title is for three statements rendered herein. Read the entire poem once without pause as a question.
Now read the blue highlighted words with a period. Lastly read the words highlighted and exclaimed in orange.

From whence came, these words of a prophet …
           Never before spoken … ‘til just here and just now
Words seemingly to have been stored upon high …
                    Given and rehearsed … to be released this selfsame day
Formed wisely in seclusion and by intellectual exam …
                             The content thorough – through the certain of how
Release the charge and complete the course of this …
                                   Truth of the tree … hidden and revealing
This excruciating knowledge being painfully certain …
                                            We cannot escape … the determination is set
Creation has demanded this change to change or …
                                                  Perish we will in ashes … repenting for not repenting.

And quarrel – as do fools – should any deny these verities …
          We are NOT allowed … to deliver alterations but only to
Reveal and discourse those long ago laws of transfer that …
                Must accomplish those … multiple tasks of design unto
The ultimate completion of division that crusades for all, to just …
                        Believe that the end … of this appointed age –
One without remedy other than chaotic collapse is at hand and …
                                    That, things holy and pure … and things both
True and honest, lovely, just and of a good report is what …
                                              He as the creator of the universe … our very …
Father who calls for us to live virtuously – praising and honoring him because he
                                                        Is … .

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Poem #42 | Written September 1, 2007

Question? Period. Exclamation! PDF