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By Susan Sargeant
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ADD TO MY FAVORITES
Mother, lover, mystical beauty
Your squalor and vistas intrigue me.
You tug at my pockets and my heart
So perfectly at ease with your poverty.
Coca-cola in hand perched on a rail
Out of reach of the rats
Children grin whitely out of starving faces.
Sweets memsahib!
I smile despite my anguish
How I want to tell you about Jesus!
He will set you free
Yet you have so many bonds, traditions.
I reach into my pocket
Suffer little children to come to me…
I start with a smile.
Your monuments are a statement of love
I see them everywhere.
Your traditions permeate your days
Hanging sickly- sweet in the air like the
Heavy scent of incense.
Others fawn but all I see is darkness
I can tell of another monument to love
Eternal, overshadowing all others
A Saviour crucified!
The burden I feel is great.
Then I remember that all You require is my weakness
To make perfect Your strength.
Take me where you will Lord
I start with a smile.
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