Cleansing

Luke 6:42 

42 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First, remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

 

Cleansing

 

Clean your own house sweetie it takes more than dusting

A good scrubbing here and there will help you along

Start with your own piety and between your ears, where rusting

is an acceptable atmosphere, where right loses to wrong

 

To cleanse your heart my loved one you need lots of help

You can’t even clean a section of that place covered with guile

You won’t be the 1st one who tried to do by self

to bring some perfection in what’s totally defiled

 

Even in a carwash with a nozzle in your mouth

Cleansing is impossible of all the dirt inside

Even if you wax and bring a shine about

it only covers the fossil that deep within resides

 

Jan Wienen

This poem is about: 
Me

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