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Ill

Why is God killing me So willingly? He’s filling me With a dirty disease Brought by biting fleas Who do as they please Until I’m on my knees Begging for release Sneezing wheezing My phlegm is breezing Through air that’s freezing Trying to teach me To act more pleasing Can I kick this sickness Brought by wickedness? Or will it punch me Into lunch meat? To be in His vicinity Is to have divinity So why does He get rid of me? Could it be the viscosity Of all my atrocities? Or the viciousness Of my wishes wished? Or my visceral Scissor hold On growing old? Despite my reverence I fear his benevolence Involves my severance The difference between dying and trying Has me in bed crying Fever frying Medicine buying From salesmen lying Saying add pills Of Advil And mad will To not be ill My plague remains still On Sisyphus’ hill Can God cure me Of this absurdity? Almost certainly But by hurting me I learn to see He uses pain to teach The one thing that’ll reach Through the bullshit I preach My gut round Shuts down Lust found That must drown In a dust cloud Of an allergic assault To an absurdist result Of catching a cold To examine my soul He gives a heart attack To the heart I lack As part of the pack Ignoring God’s path And finding His wrath Once He chooses me To lose and bleed The flu He feeds To pull the weeds That ghouls breed So cough medication selection Becomes a time for self reflection At least until my health inspection Shows no feverish detections Of the feeblest direction When the evilest infection Is joining Satan’s section
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andrew-rueter
30 / M / Kentucky
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Jan 6, 2019
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