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  Oct 2015 Mfena Ortswen
Sedoo Ashivor
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is known
Yesterday is history
How much have you grown?

Tomorrow is a mystery
Yesterday is history
Today is known
What love have you shown?

Yesterday is history
Today is known
Tomorrow is a mystery
What seeds have you sown?
Co-authored by Mfena Ortswen
  Oct 2015 Mfena Ortswen
Sedoo Ashivor
Some friends think they are so important. . . Essential

They aim to be very close to you. . . Residential

They take total control of your life. . . Presidential

They ride over your decisions. . . . Influential

And claim they deserve the merit. . . Credential

Then disappear when problems result. . . Consequential
A Repost
  Oct 2015 Mfena Ortswen
Mike Hauser
I wake up each day
With the best of intentions
So get out of my way
Because I'm a Christian
The first thing I do
Is pray of course
And with that out of the way
I check off the box

Head down to the kitchen
To put coffee on
Then search for my bible
Now where could it have gone
Right where I last set it
I read chapter and verse
I then close it up
And check off the box

Get myself dressed
In my best conservativness
Making sure not to forget
The cross around my neck
Wanting the world to know
I'm saved and not lost
In case my actions don't show
As I check off the box

I step out the door
All about the Lord's business
Looking for unsuspecting souls
To which I can witness
It's what I've got to do
Like it or not
And as soon as I'm through
I check off the box

I pray before meals
Thankful what's set before me
And thankful for not
Being like the sinners I see
With their salvation plan
I wish them good luck
Not like they haven't been warned
As I check off the box

With another satisfying day
Under my belt
Along the way I heard someone say
They had Jesus in their heart
Which got me to thinking
A lot of meaningful thoughts
But in the meantime
I'll just check off the box
I wonder how many of us in our Christian walk just check off the box out of duty. It's time we took Jesus out of the box and put him into our hearts....
Mfena Ortswen Oct 2015
Low lies Mr. Leopard
Locking eyes on his prey
Licking slowly his upper lip
It's antelope for dinner today

A yelp of pain carries across the land
One more antelope is dead in the sand
This hungry leopard feeds to his fill
Tearing apart the flesh of his tactful ****
Mfena Ortswen Oct 2015
"Go to sleep, my sweet
Just close your eyes
I know that you're beat
So ignore these pesky flies
I understand your bed is wood
I know that you're hungry
But Father is bringing us food
And water to drink and do our laundry
I can't sing your lullabies like Mother
I won't even try
I don't want my voice to be a bother
I know it'll make you cry
These little rascal rats
Won't do us no harm
They only care for the cats
That run around the farm
You know Mother had to leave
She was kind, never mean
She always told me to believe
Have faith and never commit a sin
Remember she left that dark night
Promising to be back at first light
But nemesis caught up with her said Father
As he ground her thin bones to powder"

Don't be afraid, my sweet
Father promised not to hurt us again
He locked away his tools in a kit
He will cause us no more pain
He took down Mother's skull in good will
And gave us a warm blanket for the night's chill"

I wish I could say these words to you
But alas! I have no tongue
I know my odd sounds will make you blue
So I'll just keep humming this song"

Oh! Father is home again my love
And in his hand is a whip
A dagger and what looks like a sword
He looks like a predator poised to ****
No worries, whatever happens I'll see you soon
In Paradise, far above the moon
Goodnight my little skeleton sister
Talk to you when all this is over."
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