apology for inconvenience

i'm told there was a technical delay
it was the calm voice announced minor
in just a minute we'd be on our way
to job home friends loves and airliner
we wait and go and stop to wait again
the car fills up with angry staring faces
we're passengers all on a stalled train
delayed in getting unto sundry places
i hear your voice inside urging me calm
annoyance won't get me there any faster
i think of you spreading a soothing balm
of your kind hand smooth as alabaster
i'll get to work and manage through the day
that is the task it is the only way

what it is that endures

 

shadows cast by the sun on the white ceiling
the stillness of the air the pleasant day
the radio tells a story with warmest feeling

no way to say that this is not plain dealing
the action of  our choice the noblest way
shadows cast by the sun on the white ceiling

gone back behind the cloud the senses reeling
ask the bright moment to forever stay
the radio tells a story with warmest feeling

the voices on the telephone they were appealing
for someon to resolve the darkest play
shadows cast by the sun on the white ceiling

we hear the names  we wonder  if by stealing
off in the quiet we'll  see them in array
the radio tells a story with warmest feeling

made by our histories the shining surface peeling
to show the dead who tumbled once in hay
shadows cast by the sun on the white ceiling
the radio tells a story with warmest feeling

true christianity

you must conform to meet my deepest fears
i cannot abide what i cannot understand
all of the things you've seen across the years
are dismissed with a wave of my small hand
your thoughts your passions matter not a jot
you must please me or my world will collapse
i know eternity though i have not paid my scot
you into utter darkness should relapse
i am here not to learn but to have confirmed
that i need not understand this complex earth
to have my darkest prejudices reaffirmed
and to insist that my ignorance is truest worth
so you must vanish you must go to hell
you do not really matter and that's well