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A Church

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A Church
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Erect a Church inside your heart,
and be sure to build it well.
Lay a strong foundation,
use time as your donation,
and make love your salutation.

Make good works your devotion,
and set another in motion
to build a Church of his own.

Keep quiet in your Holy Temple
and respect it with a zealot's fervor,
always seeking to go no further
than what necessity allows.

Do not decorate it with gaudy banners
but ornament it with good manners.
Should the interior become besmirched
restore it, with humility,
to its proper worth.

The building may take a while
and our plans change--all too true.
But those who build too quickly,
the Church is nothing but sickly.
And those who build too slow?
The parishioners,
principles, convictions, and intentions,
will have nowhere to go.
A short poem that came to mind.

At the end I had hoped to experiment with more but nothing really added to what I had written.

As such I hope you follow the metaphor all the way through. I had originally left "parishioners" unexplained, but added that line.


St. Paul did say, after all, our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. Think of that, perhaps, and interpret from there.
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Fancycolorfeast's avatar
Amen! this is soo well written, a true bible-honoring poem that tells what its like to have the holy spirit and good works in your life, bravo on this!!!Clap