WFRL: Ochi Chernye

If my people,
who are called by my name,
will humble themselves
and pray
and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin
and will heal their land.
Now my eyes will be open
and my ears attentive
to the prayers offered in this place.
~ 2 Chronicles 7

WFRL: My Back Pages

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard
when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
~ The Prophet Zimmy

Hear this, you kings!
Listen, you rulers!
I will sing to the LORD,
I will sing;
I will make music to the LORD,
the God of Israel.
~ Judges 5

WFRL: Visions

He said, Listen to my words:
When a prophet of the LORD is among you,
I reveal myself to him in visions,
I speak to him in dreams.
~ Numbers 12

WFRL: Learning To Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reel
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladen, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension, that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

The sky receded like a scroll,
rolling up,
and every mountain and island
was removed from its place.
~ Revelation 6

WFRL: I'm A Man...

Then I heard a voice from heaven say,
"Write:
Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord from now on."
"Yes," says the Spirit,
"they will rest from their labor,
for their deeds will follow them."
So I looked, and there before me was a white cloud,
and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man
with a crown of gold on his head
and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Then another angel came out of the temple
and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud,
"Take your sickle and reap,
because the time to reap has come,
for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
~ Revelation 14

WFRL: Something She Said...

Brothers, do not slander one another.
Anyone who speaks against his brother
or judges him speaks against the law
and judges it.
When you judge the law,
you are not keeping it,
but sitting in judgment on it.
~ James 4

WFRL: Nobody's Fault But Mine

...And when you and your children
return to the LORD your GOD
and obey him with all your heart
and with all your soul
according to everything I command you today,
then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes
and have compassion on you
and gather you again
from all the nations where he scattered you.
~ Deuteronomy 30

WFRL: Peek-A-Boo!

For everything in the world—
the cravings of sinful man,
the lust of his eyes
and the boasting of what he has, and does—
comes not from the Father
but from the world.
~ 1 John 2

WFRL: City Of Delusion

Stay away from me
Build a fortress
And shield your beliefs
Touch the divine
As we fall in line

Can I believe
When I don't trust
All your theories
Turn to dust
I choose to hide
From the all seeing eye

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

You'll not rest
Settle for less
Until you guzzle
And squander what's left
Do not deny
That you live and let die

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw

and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay
and their flowers blow away like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty
and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
~ Isaiah 5

WFRL: So Why Don't You Kill Me?

Has not Moses given you the law?
Yet not one of you keeps the law.
Why are you trying to kill me?
~ John 7

WFRL: Badge

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses,
all this disaster has come upon us,
yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our GOD
by turning from our sins
and giving attention to your truth.
~ Daniel 9

WFRL: Seasons Of Wither

Loose hearted lady sleepy was she
Love for the devil brought her to me
Seeds of a thousand drawn to her sin
Seasons of Wither old in the end

Ooh woe is me I feel so badly for you
Ooh woe is me I feel so sadly for you
In time bound to lose your mind
Live on borrowed time
Take the wind right out of your sail

Fireflies dance in the heat of
Hound dogs that bay at the moon
My ship leaves in the midnight
Can't say I'll be back too soon

She awakens far far away
Heat of my candle show me the way
Seeds of a thousand drawn to her sin
Seasons of Wither old in the end

Ooh woe is me I feel so badly for you
Ooh woe is me I feel so sadly for you
In time bound to lose your mind
Live on borrowed time
Take the wind right out of your sail

Though my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will receive me.
~ Psalm 27



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WFRL: Mad World

They are from the world
and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world,
and the world listens to them.
~ 1 John 4

WFRL: Bend Down The Branches

If the root is holy,
so are the branches.
~ Romans 11

WFRL: Cross Eyed Repenticide

If the people of the community close their eyes
when that man gives one of his children to Molech
and they fail to put him to death,
I will set my face against that man -
and his family -
and I will cut off from their people
both him
and all who follow him
in whoring themselves to Molech.
~ Leviticus 3