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Call Me From The Earth For I Have Many Names

A Poem by:

Roger B. Humes

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call me from the earth for i have many names

that our father placed within my soul

 

to lead a journey from the wilderness of the spirit

into a promised land where i chose to strike a rock

 

and water not blood poured forth

in promise to the multitudes

 

who were fed with several loaves and fishes

so that they remembered we all come

 

from the loins of a man given generations

numbering among the stars

 

and though his back may have turned upon one

destined to walk within the desert

 

a father's heart can never dwell far

from the halls of love when it comes to a son

 

for i wore a coat of many colours

which my brothers ripped from my back

 

soaked in the blood of the lamb

and placed before the crying eyes of an old man

 

who watched his dreams fade with the light of my life

until all was forgotten save for his pain

 

but the journey returned me to those of my blood

and all was forgiven before a sunrise

 

on a hushed chill morning in a promised land

where each of us has many names

 

Roger B. Humes
Copyright © 2003


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