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Rejected

Wanna go get told

There’s no room for us

At a hotel?

Or eat out

Once all the foods gone?

We could beg for seats

On a bus with no space.

Let’s get every application

Rejected

Torn to shreds.

If we’re neglected

Down below

We’ll be accepted

Up above.

– Vagabond Prophet

Empty Lot


Empty lot sitting for years

Used to have a house

Full of broken people.

Now it’s jubilee!

Earth has reclaimed it

Swallowed up concrete

With thorns and leaves and grass.

No policy or strategy

Could do a better job,

To restore a bit of peace

To a hurting part of town.

– Vagabond Prophet

Ruthless

Nothing as sharp

As a well timed word

Aimed at the spirit.

We’re almost there

Now tear the wound open wider,

Don’t forget to be ruthless.

I’ve got the salt ready

To slowly knead

Throughout your pain.

Tear it open

Let it all come pouring out,

Everything that’s you.

Leave it on the page,

Then and only then

Will you get some rest.

– Vagabond Prophet

New Growth

vagabondprophet:

Let us go away

To the gutters of decay

See what we can find

To inspire new growth.

I’ve got sadness

Let’s turn into gladness,

And maybe this doubt

Will transform into faith.

I’ve got rage

Locked inside a cage

Maybe we can change it

Into something kinder.

That’s just what you do

The impossible it’s true,

It’s how this lump of dust

Is breathing at all.

– Vagabond Prophet