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Jack Jenkins Aug 2016
Dear Abba,
    
      To spiritually photoshop, or not to spiritually photoshop: that is a recurring question. I’ve gotten pretty good at cropping and resizing to keep an impressive façade, but the emptiness behind it is the telling thing, telling me that something about the life I’m living is off the tracks. I’m not the biggest fan of mirrors but I realize they do serve a purpose: showing me the reality, the real me. I’m a ragamuffin, always have been, and yet You love me, the real me. Amazing.
An except prayer from Brennan Manning's "Dear Abba" devotional.
Joyfulgurl Nov 2022
I have a beautiful boy
And a body I don’t recognise  
I’m marked with lines like a map
That shows my journey
It was a one way trip
There is no going back

I have a beautiful boy
And a body I don’t recognise
That has gone through some resizing
But that’s hardly surprising
He needed the room to dance like he does
To grow and kick and move

I have a beautiful boy
And a body I don’t recognise
It’s aged and got tired
But that’s okay
I wouldn’t have it any other way
It’s worked very hard
to make those lashes
Those curls, that smile
That laugh
Yo who's next in line, to catch a broken spine, lay out the crime,
Miss the time, saw the grime, still living, last of the end times,
Rewind, of dollar signs, folks standin  in lines,souls on a decline,
Tryna take yours, and keep mines, blaze the pines, incline
A divine mind, activate my penal state, dead prez mate,
Missed my wake, sealed your faith, got ya pent to a jake,
A snake , a fool, took the lambs wool, to cover the drool,
Of blood, in the mud, eyes stay open, scoping, with no cruds,
To many thugs, faking for the bakin, I keep em shaking, staking,
Heartbeats, cold sweats, so neat, check the chorus repeat,
Of my rhyming feats, so vicious, grade elite, so delicious,
Like my women, voluptuous flows atrocious, stay with da focus,
Magic touch, hocus pocus, still banging my locas, Sosa
Of the rap game, name ya names, and ill show ya, birds of a flame,
Flock together, under any terrain, stained, dead ya best man,
Now you a news trend, barely break ends, like the China bidens,
Bidding, I'm kidding, sike im just resizing, the pies and, wise and, skills plot, deep disguising,
Fools know the rules, sand the tools, cant buck this bull,
Played a fool, once never saw twice, decked out the ice,
Sweet dies, of the innocent standby, prayers said for the lullaby

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