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Fear - the Parasite
Fear is unacceptablee dear friends !
For a much beloved child of God,
Who provides with largess and commends
Courage, Trust and Faith and speaks:: "Fear not"!
Fear will ferret out and dig a hole
In the ground to put fine talents in,
So the latter can not reach their goal,
But bewail in tears what might have been.
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Fear's the very opposite of faith,
Lo! It trusts not God nor fellow men,
Thus it hops around devoid of grace
Like a limping, clucking Cornish hen.
Fear is is like the insect nuisance flea,
Buzzing, whizzing round the dinner plate,
Buzzing round until inanity
Strikes the most resourceful dinner mate.
Fear leads to the land of Lodebar,
As may do some well elected chief,
With his blockheads of too many a Czar
Who are dullest 'mongst the sons of Eve.
Fear's adverse to enterprising zest,
Is disposed to stun and paralize,
Yet it spreads alike the Rinderpest,
Shirking offering of gift and tithe.
Fear is vain and inappropriate,
For a child of God, and God's delight
Unacceptable,- eliminate
The dull deadbeat, tightwad parasite.
Fear is like the crawling boll weevil.
Whose cocoons that eat the cotton tree,
And keep eating on and on until
It will crack by its voracity.
Listen to thr voice of Him that said:
Through the ages long- "Behold fear not,"
I AM with you child, be not afraid !-
I AM HE who IS, your Lord and God".
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(C) Elizabeth Dandy
