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Positively negative

Those things that I shouldn't know,
I'm over educated on.
Whenever someone says that I'm right,
I'm sure I've got to be wrong.
I'm always unsure and have a batch of doubts,
for my negativeness is all I'm positive about.

Unless I'm really miserable,
I'm never really happy.
Depression ever on the increase surrounds me,
that life alone just cannot see.
I'm confused with my feelings, and can't find any way out,
for my positiveness is all that I'm negative about.



The God of Mercy

All the time God mercifully will warn us,
but never will he forcefully stop us.
Many a time, he may well interupt us,
to warn us from that which may well corrupt us.
Many a time we regardless, will ignore him.
Seldom will we honour his every word to adore him.
Many a time we may well upset him,
yet he's promised always to be there,
however badly our actions will affect him.
This is the god of pure love,
and with his gift of that in requesting us,
is how we should detect him, to consequently please him,
by our favoured actions that should go to select him.

Debra Kuppers lives in Portsmouth, and is the author of a book
of poems ('mainly Christian but a few secular')
titled "Well, here I am".

It's published by the Adelphi Press and is available
through any large booksellers, such as W.H. Smiths, priced £4.50.

Copyright The Bentilean 1999

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