Wednesday, February 5, 2014

GOSSIP-our lingering sins

“Lingering Sins—Gossip”


There once was a woman
With a physical handicap
She was still the same now
As she was 12 years ago

What about are sins
Are our sins
The same today
As they were 12 years ago

No one
Stays the same
Are we improving
Are we regressing

Once
There was a woman
Who gossiped

When she went to confession
The Catholic priest
Told her to go to the market place
And buy a chicken
What an easy penance
She thought

Then the Catholic priest
Told her
To pluck the chicken
An spread the feathers every where

Strange she thought
But she did this too

Then the priest told her
To go and gather the feathers
And put them
Back on the chicken

I can’t do that Father
She said
The feathers are every where

Exactly the priest said
This is what happens
When you talk about someone

What about my lingering sins
What about
Your lingering sins

Where are we
In relationship
To where we were
12 years ago

ARE WE IMPROVING

Robert P. Wallman
5/10/10

*Based on the teaching of Father Leo Clifford


ps        misc.        WITNESS        2-5-14

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