Tuesday, 31 July 2018

SALVATION ET COMMUNION TABLE poem by Simpa Omoluabi



SALVATION ET COMMUNION TABLE
                                                                                      
          
Grain, meat, drink and wine is bread of life above all… 
Food in belly is the first contentment,  
Cause of the falling out in heaven the great fall…
Bread of life is the root of discontent. 

With all our lives all we do day in and day out            5
Is recreation of heaven and earth.  
The need to recreate is what life is about
Till the final hours and momentof death.

For this is earth this earth this soil of which we are
God’s people daughters and sons of the soil                 10
Daughters and sons, earthly children of sky and star
On earth in which we recreate in toil. 

Heaven is the very essence of all war cry
The cry to live heavenly life on earth 
Cry to materialize heaven the battle cry                       15
Cry to realize heaven’s life ‘fore death.

The desire to be heavenly fulfilled on earth
Is the desire to make life worth living
It’s the reason for the battle cry unto death
To make the peace of death a living thing.                  20

Mansions are recreations of unknown heavens;
Observe all the glittering stars at nights
Across the cities do observe them at evens
See how like stars look the electric lights. 

Heaven is chicken-peri-peri, turkey stew,                     25
Assorted dishes on the lords’ table, 
Of God’s kingdom first of first veritable dew
For God’s people at communion table. 

If heaven is meant to be taken personal 
It should be when your singular action                         30
Fulfills the desire of the whole for eternal
Liberation in quests of revolution. 
Heaven is food within our reach on the table
Just as it was when we knew no hunger
Before we came to this life as on the Lord ’s Table      35
Before we came to this life of suffer. 

Our Father is the great lordship at whose table
Every meal was at equal disposal
For all of us at the great Communion Table
Where the bread was what made us all closer.              40

Of the great memory of the Spirit-of-life
We must remember, come as one member
Based on the communion table of bread-of-life
Where bread was equally shared as hunger. 

Heaven is chicken-peri-peri, turkey stew,                     45
Assorted dishes on the lords’ table, 
Of God’s kingdom first of first veritable dew
For God’s people at communion table. 

Communion table is table of bread and wine
Food, drinks, binding us in common hunger.              50
As it is at the lords’ table so we all must dine
In remembrance of things heaven yonder.

There is no greater communion than bread and wine
The sustenance of the Spirit-of-life
Of a common belly that cuts through every line        55
Of race, colour, creed, child, husband and wife.  

The lords’ table is the table of the rich man
The lord is the rich living in affluence, 
The lords’ table is table of the rich woman
The lord’s the rich living in opulence.                           60

And the lords’ table is the communion table
Communion table table of bread, wine,
Food and drinks, name it all, this is the lords’ table
The tables were we must equally dine.

Since commonly and equally shared is hunger            65
By the holy and great Spirit-of-life
On the holy communion table together
We must equally share grain… bread-of-life.

The lords’ portion in paradise is my portion, 
Heaven is steady flow of food and light,                       70
When God’s people are denied they must brew potions
To stand with ophid will to end their night.

Heaven is stew, meat, fish, soup always in my pot, 
In absence my belly is discontent
As such should be the lord’s in the heavenly court;    75
When I’m not… the lord has no right to content.

People of God there is no greater communion 
Between the lord and people of the Lord
Than sharing the food of life in sweetest union
Proportionately as people of God.                                                  80

When God’s people have been made to stomach hunger,
Having been driven from the lord’s table,
With virus on their mind they may come together
To down the lord at communion table.

When there is no longer food, drink on my table,       85
First and foremost, first and first, first of all
It should mean victual shortage on the lord’s table 
For this is the great communion table of all.

The lord seats parliamentary, in the House of Lords
Twisting heavens law against God’s people                                 90
That at the table of the Lord of lords
They’re cast out made to beg like a cripple.

They came with serpent hearts for revolution
And they poisoned the communion table, 
Revolution with a venomous solution                          95
Dethroning the lord from the lord’s table.

Heaven is equal food, equal right and justice
Served all and sundry at the lord’s table,
But when the people of God are served injustice
They develop poisonous, formidable.                            100
As it heavenly was before you, I, were born
When we knew no form or cause of suffering  
Heavenly recreations should be borne
Equally in pleasure and hardship ‘mong the living.

Heaven is equal food, equal right and justice               105
Served all and sundry at the lord’s table
But when the people of God are served injustice
Venomously they grow strong and able… 
With subtlety I come striking down great Babel
Causing a great Theban pandemonium                         110
I with the potent and sweet heart of a rebel, 
Although rears the thunder of opprobrium.

If heaven is meant to be taken personal 
It should be when your singular action
Fulfills the desire of the whole for eternal                    115
Liberation in quests of revolution.  

Of course heaven is on earth; where else, save the grave?
We are all born with heaven on our mind. 
Salvation is quest for heaven, which is to save 
From poverty and injustice all-kind.                              120

The reason that you, I, must be people of God
Is that heaven is for the rich and poor: 
Heaven’s common hunger of labourer and lord
Seeking a common contentment, the law.   

The essence that we all must be people of God            125
Is that heaven is for the rich and poor: 
The reason the most allude to a common God
Is that he’s the one who takes the right door. 

Heaven is the whole earth heaven is fatherland, 
To a common God alludes rich and poor                       130
Cause by back door heaven is barren motherland,
For heaven is found barren by back door.

Heaven is the whole earth heaven is motherland, 
To a common God alludes rich and poor
Cause via back door heaven is sterile fatherland         135
For heaven is found fruitless by back door.

The essence that we all must be people of God 
Is that heaven is for the rich and poor: 
The reason the most allude to a common God
Is that she’s the one who takes the right door.            140

The essence that we all must be people of God 
Is rejecting heaven by the back door: 
The reason that all we must be children of God
Is to access heaven via the right door.   

Unlike the gods only God do take the front door       145
This is the way heaven finds contentment
Over a hunger common to the king and poor: 
God save us from heaven’s discontentment. 

Out of the brotherhood of love it is given
Unto us for to seek companionship                                150
To seek partnership in love among the living
Even unto a wedlock fellowship.

To some wedlock is given children to parent
And to some it is not and for such ones
Not given, if they could, let such make godparent 155
Making godchildren of all the orphans.

Out of the sisterliness of love it’s given
Unto us for to seek companionship
To seek partnership in love among the living
Even unto a wedlock fellowship.                                     160

To some wedlock is given children to parent
And to some it is not and for such ones
Not given, if they could, let such make godparent
Making godchildren of all the orphans.
The discontentment of heaven’s common hunger      165
Attracts violence and great rebellion 
When those who don’t take backdoors for it do suffer
It necessitates a revolution.  

The God in our lives is the necessary evil
To help for to ease God’s people’s hardship                  170
By striking ‘gainst imperialism the Devil
‘gainst Satan the capitalist slaveship. 

Heaven is the climax of life, and this is death.
To achieve heaven’s common fulfillment
In all our recreations of heaven on earth                      175
We must outline our common discontent. 

As far heaven is a hunger common like death
Salvation ain’t personal to the selves. 
Salvation is only personal on this earth
In heaven helping those who help themselves.           180

Salvation is the Great Spirit of God our lord
Manifesting in concrete flesh and blood
As Collective spirit of the people of God
In a movement for blessing showers to flood.  

Salvation is the Great will of God our father                185
In which we are equal heirs of his will
As far as heaven is decent food, clothes, shelter,
Education, free speech, heaven’s-will.  

Salvation is the Great will of God our mother
In which we are equal heirs of her will                           190
As far as heaven is decent food, clothes, shelter,
Education, free speech… heaven’s-will.    

Of states of mind where salvation is personal
Ones whom have reached heavenly property 
Hate the talks of revolt right from the internal          195
For they are born again from poverty.  

Delivered from the damnation of poverty
They are now the ones in heaven on earth
For they’ve been born again from the iniquity
Of poverty saved from the life of death,                        200

Saved from the life of death life of the living dead
By that they have achieved their salvation
For they are now well clothed and heavenly fed
Due to their singular revolution

So why should they partake in mass revolution          205
It is the very question they would ask
Now that she from hunger has gotten salvation
Wrongly meaning heaven is a lone task

So why should they partake in mass revolution
It is the very question they would ask                           210
Now that he from hardship has gotten salvation
Wrongly meaning heaven as a lone task 

The revolutionary movement for heaven
Is God’s people as one under God’s breath, 
For heaven in God’s spirit they are uprisen; 215
The kingdom of God is heaven on earth.  

The kingdom of God is where what’s available
For the eyes of the rich ones to behold
The eyes of plebs are equally made capable
By government to see, and not withhold.                     220

The kingdom of God is what’s good for the palate
Of the rich is well made accessible
For the pleb to have on her or his plate
By government or there shall be trouble

The kingdom of God is what’s good for nakedness     225
Of the rich for the plebs is good for wear,
For Adam and Eve rebelled ‘gainst such wickedness,
The LORD fashioned them wears, they had no fear…

God forbid Adam to have the fear of the LORD
When Adam could not afford decent clothes               230
écause of the edict of the authority’s word
So Adam rebelled with Eve his sweet rose

When the LORD denied them from erudition
Adam and Eve disobeyed the great LORD,
Adam, Eve the plebs denied good education,              235
Denied sound fruit of knowledge by the gods

Of the sweet fruit of knowledge the LORD and gods ployed
That Adams, Eves be denied, left as fools,
The LORD and gods said it can only be enjoyed
By our kids in expensive private schools                      240

The LORD and gods agreed that if Adam and Eve
Enjoy the same quality of knowledge
Like them they would no longer be able to thieve
The gods would no more have the supreme edge

The gods said on the eyes of Adam, Eve the wools     245
Must stay leaving them sour fruits of knowledge
Fruits of knowledge meant for plucking in public schools
That unlike kids of gods they won’t have edge. 

That they shall have with children of the LORD and gods
Equal chances for sound erudition                                  250
Adam, Eve rebelled ‘gainst the authority’s words
For sound quality of education.

If heaven is meant to be taken personal 
It should be when your singular action
Fulfills the desire of the whole for eternal                    255
Liberation in quests of revolution.   

The revolutionary movement for heaven
Is God’s people as one under God’s breath, 
For heaven in God’s spirit they are uprisen;
The kingdom of God is heaven on earth.                       260 

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