Poetry

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THEY WENT ACROSS TO THE REGION
OF THE GERASENES LAND.
THERE THEY MET THE MAN CALLED LEGION
EVIL SPIRITS FILLED THIS MAN.

THIS MAN COULD NO LONGER BE BOUND
NOT EVEN WITH A STRONG CHAIN.
IN THE TOMBS IS WHERE HE'D BE FOUND
HE WAS A NUMBER ONE PAIN.

2.
MEN HAD BOUND HIM BY HANDS AND FEET
BUT HE TORE THE CHAINS APART.
NONE COULD SUCH A BINDING REPEAT
NONE WOULD EVEN DARE TO START.

NIGHT AND DAY IN TOMBS AND HILLSIDE
HE WOULD CRY OUT IN SUCH TONES.
IT'S A WONDER HE HAD NOT DIED
FOR HE CUT HIMSELF WITH STONES.

3.
HE SAW JESUS FROM A DISTANCE
HE RAN AND FELL ON HIS KNEES.
HE SHOUTED AND GAVE RESISTANCE
DON'T TORTURE ME HE BEGGED-PLEASE!

WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME JESUS?
THOU THE SON OF GOD MOST HIGH.
HE CRIED TO THE LORD WHO FREES US
COME OUT EVIL ONE-HIS CRY!

4.
JESUS ASKED HIM WHAT IS YOUR NAME
LEGION IS WHAT HE REPLIED.
WE ARE MANY, NONE CAN US TAME
THEN ON BEGGING HE RELIED.

DON'T SEND US AWAY FROM THIS PLACE
THEY BEGGED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
THEY BEGGED FOR WHAT SEEMED A DISGRACE
THERE ARE PIGS, SEND US TO THEM.


5.
JESUS THEN GAVE THEM PERMISSION
EVIL SPIRITS THEN CAME OUT.
INTO THOSE PIGS WAS THEIR MISSION
THAT HEARD THEN BEGAN TO BOUT.

THEY WERE TWO THOUSAND IN NUMBER
AS THEY RUSHED DOWN THE STEEP BANK.
INTO AN ETERNAL SLUMBER
AS INTO THE LAKE THEY SANK.

6.
THOSE TENDING THE PIGS RAN TO TELL
THOSE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY SIDE.
THIS NEWS DID THE PEOPLE COMPEL
TO GO WHERE THOSE PIGS RESIDE.

WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS THEY SAW
THE POSSESSED MAN SITTING THERE.
DRESSED AND MENTALLY WITHOUT FLAW
SUCH A SIGHT GAVE THEM A SCARE.

7.
THOSE WHO HAD SEEN IT TOLD OTHERS
NEWS OF THIS SPREAD EVERYWHERE.
THE PEOPLE WERE JOINED AS BROTHERS
PLEADING, JESUS DON'T STAY THERE.

AS JESUS GOT INTO THE BOAT
THE DEMON POSSESSED MAN SAID.
LET ME GO YOUR NAME TO PROMOTE
BUT JESUS SAID THIS INSTEAD.

8.
GO HOME AND TELL YOUR FAMILY
WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR YOU.
TELL THEM OF THE LORD'S GREAT MERCY
SO THIS HE BEGAN TO DO.

IN DECAPOLIS HE TOLD THEM
AS HE HIS NEW LORD OBEYS.
TELLING WHAT HAD BEEN DONE FOR HIM
DID ALL THE PEOPLE AMAZE.



9.
JESUS THEN CROSSED THE LAKE BY BOAT
AND GATHERED THERE WAS A CROWD.
JAIRUS SEEKING AN ANTIDOTE
PLEADED FOR HIS DAUGHTER, LOUD.

SHE IS DYING, PLEASE COME WITH ME
THIS SYNAGOGUE RULER CRIED.
WITH YOUR HANDS SHE CAN HEALED BE
SO JESUS WALKED BY HIS SIDE.

10.
A LARGE CROWD PRESSED ALL AROUND HIM
AND A CERTAIN WOMAN CAME.
BLEEDING TWELVE YEARS, HER FUTURE DIM
YEARS OF CARE LEFT HER THE SAME.

SHE SUFFERED UNDER DOCTOR'S CARE
SHE SPENT EVERYTHING SHE HAD..
SHE HAD GOOD REASON FOR DESPAIR
ALL HAD LEFT HER JUST AS BAD.

11.
WHEN SHE HEARD JESUS HAD COME THERE
SHE CAME UP AND TOUCHED HIS CLOAK.
IT WAS HER ONLY HOPE TO DARE
HEALING COULD COME WITH THAT STROKE.

SHE WAS RIGHT AND SHE WAS HEALED
INSTANTLY HER BLEEDING STOPPED.
WHAT CAUSED BLEEDING NOW WAS SEALED
PLEASURE HAD FOR PAIN BEEN SWAPPED.

12.
JESUS FELT POWER HAD LEFT HIM
HE ASKED WHO HAS TOUCHED MY CLOTHES.
HIS DISCIPLES SORT OF MOCKED HIM
PEOPLE ARE PRESSING IN DROVES.

JESUS LOOKED FOR WHO HAD DONE IT
THE WOMAN FELL AT HIS FEET.
TREMBLING WITH FEAR SHE DID ADMIT
THE WHOLE TRUTH SHE DID REPEAT.



13.
JESUS SAID YOUR FAITH HAS HEALED YOU
DAUGHTER NOW YOU GO IN PEACE.
YOUR BODY HAS NOW BEEN MADE NEW
HEALTH WILL MAKE YOUR PAIN TO CEASE.

WHILE JESUS WAS SPEAKING MEN CAME
FROM JAIRUS' HOUSE TO SAY
YOUR DAUGHTER IS DEAD THEY EXCLAIM
DON'T BOTHER JESUS TODAY.

14.
IGNORE THE MESSAGE THEY HAVE MADE
JESUS SAID TO JAIRUS THEN.
BELIEVE AND DO NOT BE AFRAID
YOUR DAUGHTER WILL LIVE AGAIN.

ONLY A FEW COULD FOLLOW HIM
PETER, JOHN AND BROTHER JAMES.
WHEN THEY CAME THE SCENE WAS QUITE GRIM
WITH SORROW THAT GRIEF INFLAMES.

15.
JESUS SAID THIS CHILD IS NOT DEAD
SHE HAS ONLY GONE TO SLEEP.
WEEPING TURNED TO LAUGHTER INSTEAD
THEY MOCKED JESUS AS A CREEP.

HE PUT THEM ALL OUT OF THE HOUSE
AND WENT IN WHERE THE CHILD WAS.
HIS DISCIPLES; FATHER AND SPOUSE
CAME TO WATCH WHAT JESUS DOES.

16.
JESUS TOOK HER BY HER SMALL HAND
AND SAID LITTLE GIRL GET UP.
SHE RESPONDED TO HIS COMMAND
STOOD AND WALKED AND SOON TOOK SUP.

THEY WERE TOTALLY ASTONISHED
THEIR TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL WAS WELL.
THEN JESUS HAD THEM ADMONISHED
KEEP THIS QUITE AND DON'T TELL.

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