Cacophony is uncouth, as you well know <br />You prize your ears too little <br />So you are in trouble again, you <br />With your salvation band <br /> <br />There were two churches in the building <br />Already! <br />What spirit possessed you <br />To begin your own revival? <br /> <br />You talk of the latter rain <br />In Harmattan; this is not correct <br />It is only dust and faded grass <br />That surround us now <br /> <br />Not only you know this Jesus <br />We know him too <br />Those Witnesses gave us books <br />And filled our ears <br /> <br />Not with alleluias or loud choruses <br />Not with drums and shekeres <br />But quiet meditations and prayer <br />We too sobbed <br /> <br />No, we did not fall <br />No one as yet was slain in the Spirit, and <br />Why do your neighbours alert the Union <br />To kick you out of town?<br /><br />samuel nze<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cacophony-salvation/