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Simon Says
(based in part on verses)
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Is that the pie-man
Or Simon Peter?
Anyone
Who’d rather simonize
A game
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We know what Simon Peter says
He wrote letters
We have two
He fished
One kind and then the other
It seems he went back and forth
Between despair
And inspiration
His is a good cause
For reconciliation
Saying the one thing
You are Christ
Then falling, failing
Into water
(he is rescued)
First refusing foot-washing
Then wanting it all over
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Yet somehow he is the rock
A name
A metaphor
For church
Jesus says so
Then there’s the episode
Chapter and verse for us
When it is night
And his rabbi, his leader,
And his friend is arrested
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And when he’s near
To everything
And asked about it
Says he doesn’t know
He doesn’t know the man
And upon the last
Of three of these
He curses
And the rooster crows
And he sees
Maybe in every way
The savior
Who was his teacher
And his friend
And it’s over
No paradox remains
The holes have been dug
Into conviction
Into faith
And practice
In some new ways perhaps
At least on the inside
Where it matters
Unless feeding others
That is an outside matter
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What faith,
The joy he had
Have gone into the void
Like mortality
Into the entrance of a tomb
He goes away
He’s out of everything
For a chapter
Or two chapters
His own story
Torn out by the tearing actions
Of denial
Help my unbelief
He could have remembered
The cry of the parent
For the healing of the child
He could have wept
For Jerusalem
And for his friend
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Peter, Peter
Denier
Pumpkin-eater
Follower and friend
He said so
Jesus said so
Then everything was gone
He was gone
With the other one
Sometimes we lose our way
With the other
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C L Couch
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Matthew 26:69-75
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(the letters that are 1 and 2 Peter)
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nursery rhymes that are the stuff of ages, now
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