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Worldly Things

I want to go

I want to leave your presence

I won’t take the way

You make me feel

I won’t give in

To your bribes

I don’t need those things

To survive

 

I won’t be a worldly person

I shall not let it be so

Your bribes will not work on me

No they shall not

You dwell upon material things

I dwell upon the opposite

I care about my soul

Being materialistic shall set me back

 

So I set possessions

Out of my mind

Those earthly things

Mean nothing

I am sorrowful

For those who dwell

Upon those things

So easily taken away

To dwell upon those things

Would put me in a melancholy mood

They disappear quickly

But my Savior

Shall forever stay

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kiana-jackson
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Published
Feb 9, 2010
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