Redemption

I’m just a man on a mission

A man cloaked in black

With a bible under my arm

Preaching to those that would listen

About my harm and about my reason

About my charm and about my treason

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Dancing with Lucifer

Holding hands

Stepping across the stone floor

A lyre whispers in the distance

Wearing a torn bride’s dress

Spotted red above the knees

See my hands

Please my eyes

Wine in my beard

Heart crucified to the wooden ark

Blood dripping down to the bimah

Slithering snakes tease to please

Love me

Don’t just unjust me

Scanning the congregation for hope

Eyes meeting your eyes

In this uncontrolled territory

Sea of Kineret excursion

My feet flirt with the benthos

Head south for the pillar

To wash my wounds with salt

Could not sink my toes into the Dead Sea

Infidels biting Eden’s forbidden fruit

Fighting over lands that do not forgive

For unkept promises

Casting out my shadow

My forever plea

It is something so ordinary

That I cannot see

For I am a man

A man on a mission

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I’m just a man on a mission

A man cloaked in black

With a bible under my arm

Preaching to those that would listen

About my harm and about my reason

About my charm and about my treason

© 2026 David Greg Harth

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