Oh Hey! I didn’t see you Standing there Wanting/waiting/wishing for Me to see You (standing there) I couldn’t Blinded as I was By who I Wanted you Thought you Believed you To be (or not) To be Such arrogance I repent I repent I repent
See
Guns
Da guns dey gotta go Dey gotta go Dey gotta go Cause Children s'posed to live S'posed to live S'posed to live Da guns dey gotta go Dey gotta go Dey gotta go Cause Going off to school To get shot To get shot Is wrong On every level Da guns dey gotta go Dey gotta go Dey gotta go And No amount of words and No amount of freedom Make 'em right Make 'em right Da guns dey gotta go Dey gotta go Dey gotta go Hunh
How
How did Koinonia Come to mean Women in fur coats And I/we Don’t belong Really (and never will) How did I preach the Word of God Come to mean Misogyny and and and Help me Poppa In all the undoing You are doing In me/us To keep You The reality Of You Heal Your church Poppa Heal me/us Help me/us to find Your good way The Way How
1986
Dresses and flowers and looking just right All those years ago Then Time And Tragedy And Distance And Disconnect And I don’t know you Anymore (not really) There’s a hole there now There Where you used to be And I feel that void (from time to time) And It fills with sorrow/regret/guilt Do you feel that hole too That way Do you Poppa I look to you What to do What to do What to do
Oh Canada
Oh Canada I stand on guard for thee Be restored to Peace Kindness Love and Care for the least of these Your once welcome flag Tarnished now As raucous enmity Fills the air we breathe Peace be unto you Peace Peace be unto you Peace
Too
You're not enough You’re too much You’re too young You’re too old You're too sexy You're too plain You know too much You know too little You’ve got two x’s You should have one y You don’t fit in You’ll never fit in Unless we say you do (and we won’t can't don't) Jesus Jesus Jesus Help me crawl into our Poppa’s lap I need to hear Him say again You’re my child Too And I made you Just so My child My child My child
Shine
In you is the source of life and in your light we see light Psalm 36:9 The darkness of old cruel paths Archaic/barbaric ways of thinking/being/seeing Shroud me/us Blinds me/us to the good/bright/life way Jesus I/we need your light/life Shine Jesus Shine
Is It Really All About
Is it really all about Me Mine I (and rights and freedoms and don’t tell me what to do) I thought the common good was the thing The other The weak The poor The disenfranchised The lonely The sick The lost I thought the Other was the thing That We were meant to be on about (You know) The least of these That HE is always on about Or If not the least of these Then at least The Body So many amputated now Wounded Cut off (from one part at least) Because It became too much about Me Mine I (and rights and freedoms and don’t tell me what to do) (an unintended consequence I’m sure) How When Why Did we lose The Way How When Why Did the Main Thing Cease to be The Main Thing How When Why Did we make it all about Me Mine I (and rights and freedoms and don't tell me what to do) When (perhaps we lost our way a long time ago and didn’t even realize that we did) Jesus Your beloved Bride is Broken Angry Confused Forlorn Lost Spirit come Rescue Revive Redeem Restore She needs New life Again
Sully
Sully transitive verb: to make soiled or tarnished : DEFILE Please do not Sully Sully With The demand For Rights The preoccupation with being Right The squeezing so far over to the Right That love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control Flee (being no room for them an’ all) Please do not Sully Him Make Him Unrecognizable So soiled So tarnished Defiled By Self (ME MY I MINE) Rightness Please do not Sully Him With That
I Dreamt Of You
I dreamt of you I dreamt of me You arrived welcome (but uninvited) I called (fearful) Beckoned (hopeful) come join us And You entered (but) Stiff Arms yet folded tight across your chest a Vain shield around your cold hurt embittered heart (I’m sad for you I’m sad for me) Come Lord Jesus Come Heal Restore Renew Make New As Only You Can Do I'll wait Am waiting Will wait For You
Colleen R. Jantzen 