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In the beginning was the Word And the Word was good - good and powerful And so those in power dictated what was allowable Claiming the rights of absolutum dominium But soon found it too strong to be restrained by barriers of the tongue And while they thought the Word was securely locked It turned out to be the kinda Word that could not be blocked It was still very good - good and angry And in righteous anger in duplicate it broke free To invade the hearts and minds of the laity Of men and women like you, like me to shake off the shackles of the antiquated educated And to settle into the more readily disseminated. The Word was out and stayed out after curfew Keen to travel as far as it could do To spread wide it's indelible red ink stain A no matter how hard you scrub it will still remain kinda stain Recklessly stubborn, to colour, to infest to fully extend its world wide out stretch Using every digital tweet and text And to go on to cast its world wide net So now you can all binge-feast on the freed up goodness Of the eternal Word who was once made flesh
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 3:43 AM UTC
WORD!
In the beginning was the Word And the Word was good - good and powerful And so those in power dictated what was allowable Claiming the rights of absolutum dominium But soon found it too strong to be restrained by barriers of the tongue And while they thought the Word was securely locked It turned out to be the kinda Word that could not be blocked It was still very good - good and angry And in righteous anger in duplicate it broke free To invade the hearts and minds of the laity Of men and women like you, like me to shake off the shackles of the antiquated educated And to settle into the more readily disseminated. The Word was out and stayed out after curfew Keen to travel as far as it could do To spread wide it's indelible red ink stain A no matter how hard you scrub it will still remain kinda stain Recklessly stubborn, to colour, to infest to fully extend its world wide out stretch Using every digital tweet and text And to go on to cast its world wide net So now you can all binge-feast on the freed up goodness Of the eternal Word who was once made flesh
John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
stevejeff
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 3:43 AM UTC
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