...And Just In Time

ON ABORTION

'It's just tissue'
I've heard it said.
Arms, legs, head.
Feeling pain.
             Trying
to cry out
          and say
'Help!
'Save me!
'It hurts!'
Gasping for breath.
And then is gone
Mercifully.

'It's just tissue,' you say.
I say:
Murderer.
Liar.
Thief
of a life
That you were given
To do something with
Proudly.

Begone
yourself.

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THERE COMES A TIME

There comes a time
When a man must go
And do what needs be done
To become One
With the Other -
Father, mother, sister, brother
All together
Again
In a different clime
When kingdom come.

There comes a time
When a man must act.
And there is no better time
Than the Present.
That is to say
The Eternal Now.
And that's a fact.

There comes a time.

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