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NARRATIVE POETRY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you Mrs. Swope, wherever you are. My 8th grade teacher in Long Beach, CA offered an "A"
to whomever would memorize "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robt. W. Service. The pleasure
I've had reciting it over campfires and at various meetings has far outweighed that initial reward, but it
was many years before I felt any inclination to compose personally.
The poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-92) contains many religious references although he wrote "I
understand God not in the least". (Song of Myself-47). The poets of the future, he predicted in his
"Leaves of Grass", wouldn't deign to defend immortality or God. How wrong he was! See poem "Maiden Voyage".
Quite a few of these poems have been published in small journals: Omnific, Ozark Muse, Poet's Voice,
Inspirational Poet, Parnassus, Southern Poetry Association, Poetic Realm, Tucumcari Literary Review,
to name a few, and I often used the byline "Bob Smith of Foreman" (Ark.)
Someone will point out how the 23rd Psalm is the finest poetry ever written, no matter which
language is used, and I heartily agree. The "cup" that runneth over isn't just any tin cup or coffee cup--the psalmist is speaking of the content of our life. The "table" is the Bible, and the green pastures
appeal to the persons who've become "sheep" of the Great Shepherd. The psalm doesn't rhyme, at
least not in English, and the vowels and punctuation are missing from the oldest Hebrew texts, so we
can't be certain of the original meter or rhythm.
DREAMER
When I see it in the Bible then I think it has a purpose
'cause my Father's not a man to mince his Word..
If this present life is like a dream, then I'll soon be
waking up, and I'll expect to hear the chirping of the birds..
It's going to be a New Day! A special for-a-few Day,
and maybe like a visit to the farm..
We'll be gathered all together like birds of the same
feather, and ...oops, there goes the alarm!
DAVID & GOLIATH 1Sam17
Bob Smith, Jamaica, 1/89
When David heard what Goliath said, it made his blood to boil, So David prepared for the battle, and he tried on the armor of Saul, Then David marched out on the battlefield, while the Army of Israel waited You see, David was wearing the Armor of God, and in his mouth was a
Then David loaded one of his stones, and began to whirl his sling; SAMSON Judg 14:14
A mighty Judge of Israel; Samson was his name, A mighty Judge of Israel: Samson was his name.. "From the eater came forth meat; from the strong came sweetness", The honey from the lion was the Riddle to his love.. Came the day the Philistines brought Samson for their fun.. They say he killed more in his death than when he was alive, THE BEAUTIFUL FEET Bob Smith, Tucson AZ, 8/88
To the Jews God gave special instructions concerning what they could eat, If it came out of the water it must be a fish, cause it had to have fins and scales, "It isn't the food that goes in your mouth that defiles you", Jesus said, When you chew the good food of the Word, it's kind of like chewing gum, The Body of Christ has many parts, and each part serves a purpose. You'll be clean in the sight of God, when you meditate in His Word, The physical food of the Old Testament was an example for us to learn by, Corn of Heaven I always say what The Word says, because the Word is LIGHT, I always say what The Word says, because the Word is a ROCK, I always say what The Word says, because the Word is CORN! I always say what The Word says, because the Word is BREAD, I always say what The Word says, because the Word is DRINK... I always say what my Father says, because the Word is GOD, CHRIST IS THE ROCK! Christ is the Rock, and he's the answer, 1Cor10:4 They say that honey comes from bee's, but the answer's on my tongue.. Ps81:16 They say that water comes from rain, and that it's mainly in the plain, Hos6:3 They say that oil lubricates, and is pumped up from the ground, Dt32:13 They say that fire burns and kills--it's definitely HOT...but the Judg6:21 Now they ate lamb, but we eat bread; as spirit succeeds flesh, Samson's HONEY is in stock, for those who want it from the Rock,
Christ is the Rock, and he's the answer, Ps18:31 HE never said "I AM the Rock", (it isn't written) leaving that information for Paul to divulge in
1Cor10:4. Besides, it would have driven the Pharisees and Sadducees ballistic! He's the monolithic Rock who's
the source of the honey, the anointing oil, the Living Water, and the Holy Ghost baptism! Like a diamond with many facets!
"LET MY PEOPLE GO" - Exodus 8, 9
"Let my people go!" says God, but Satan hangs on tight, and the
Come hell or high calamity; Come sickness or disease, "Let my people go!" says God, "So they can worship me",
"Let my people go!" said God, but Satan won't let go...
My apologies to the rabbits. This poem from the Book of Exodus is modulated with a New
Testament perspective which says those things were "for our learning"; Rom15:4.
It was the Pharaoh in Egypt who refused to let the Children of Israel depart and it was puzzling why
he was so wishy-washy; so obstinate and cantankerous, alternately agreeing and then refusing to let the
people go, in view of all the severe plagues. Back in those days the Israeli's were fighting flesh and
blood enemies and knew little of Satan (did they equate him with the serpent in the garden?), but the
Christian fight is against the lies concerning God's Word: a spiritual battle of words, symbolic logic, and
outspoken faith.
Here's NEWS for you -- the FIRSTBORN still die! We're all "terminal". That's why you "must be born again",
like Jesus said, if you're ever to inherit eternal life. Suppose the Pharaoh had allowed the Israeli's to depart early on, before the final plague of the death
of the firstborn. Then we would have missed the crucial sacrament of the Passover Lamb and how it
related to Jesus, the Lamb of God. God had said back then "When I see the blood, I will pass over
you"; a figure and precept of the atoning action which ultimately took place at Calvary. On the inside--looking out.. Two sides to every wall On the inside--looking out.. The wall is what divides us, On the inside--looking out.. On the outside--looking in..
Consider, if you will, the egg: and its astounding age, Consider, if you will, the egg: and how it's like a seed, But only if the Rooster has equipped the egg for life, Consider, if you will, the egg: in all its rounded glory, As "seeds", mankind can be planted in the grave but will arise in the resurrection, assuming they really
do contain that new life, and in this sense the seeds are pregnant; whether male or female. Jacob's
trouble. It's a logic which agrees with how Jesus is the "seed" (John 12:24, 1Pet1:23) whom God
planted on the earth for the purpose of obtaining and gathering a harvest of sons and daughters. This
poem aims at the comparison between seeds and eggs, emphasizing how unfertilized eggs will never
develop life or become caviar, but are only good for scrambling. Figuratively it applies to individuals
who refuse to accept the whole truth of what Jesus said, and how his blood on the cross is crucial for
eternal life.
The Crossroad...
At every crossroad there's a sign, directing left or right, Two by two they entered the Ark, a vessel of haven to them, "If I be lifted up", he said, "I'll draw all men to me"..
"Why was King Saul agreeing to the Giant's terms? Why didn't he send out a SWAT team or dig an elephant pit?
The secret of his strength was that it came from "up above".
"Samson is a type and figure of the Old Covenant Hebrews who didn't see the coming of the Church
Age: they were "blinded" to the understanding of how the Jew & Gentile would be "One Body",
Eph3:5,6.
What's the meaning behind these rules? Is it something we ought to know?
"How beautiful on the mountain are the feet of him..." Nahum 1:15, Rom10:15, Isa52:7
Just the feet? A pedagogue is a teacher, and Maschil is the Hebrew for an instructive or didactic poem.
See title of Ps32,142.
A fortress of Living Words to supply and water God's stock.
These aren't the only metaphors for Jesus and the Scripture--Jeremiah 23:29 asks "Is not my Word
as a fire, and as a hammer?" The Apostle Peter, 1Pet2:2, wrote: "As sincere babes, desire the sincere
milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby", and Hebrews 5:12 admonishes us to grow up and
progress from the milk to the meat. Click here for more about Jesus.
A lyric poem by Bob Smith, Ana Glyfada Greece, 7/87
THE WALLS
The English prisoner-poet Richard Lovelace (1618-57) was no doubt thinking of mental walls when he
penned the familiar lines: "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage". Seen as an
allegory, this account in the Book of Joshua parallels "Thy Word have I hid in my heart", Ps119:11, and
"I and my Father are one", Jn10:30, with the two unidentified spies hidden by Rahab. She married
Salmon and they had a son Boaz, so she became mother-in-law to Ruth, and ancestor of David. Her
physical house was in the wall when the wall came down, but the House of David offers "the sure
mercies of David", Acts13:34. The salvation precept is stated plainly in Josh6:25 --"And Joshua saved
Rahab the harlot alive, ...because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho." The
allegory says she had the faith, Jas2:25, to oppose and defy her whore of Babylon worldly culture!
A great man of God was ole Moses,
from his head all the way to his toes'es
The Law that he gave us, allowed Jesus to save us,
So we'd come up smelling like roses!
Consider, if you will, the egg: and how it's good to eat,
You'll kill the chick if you pry open the shell for it --
w/o the struggle and exercise, the chick will die!
If your story won't hold water, then we look at it askance,
The subject of TWO is best understood in light of Gen41:32 "by two it's established". The animals
went into the Ark by two's, and Jesus sent out the seventy by two's. The two are frequently reciprocals
(heaven/hell, love/hate, angels/devils) but more often are used in comparison or analogy: two tablets,
two brothers, two pillars, two mountains, two dreams, two spies, two covenants, two baptisms, two
kingdoms, two resurrections, two Jerusalems, two witnesses, Elijah/Elisha, Esau/Jacob, Rachel/Leah,
Sadducees/Pharisees, Jew/Gentile, double portion, the Old/New, etc. "I and my Father are one",
Jesus said in Jn10:30. (For more about "two's", click on Logos & Rhema).
The pragmatic view will appreciate how it takes two lines for parallel, two dots for distance, two
subjects for comparison, and two lines of sight for depth of vision. We often hear "You can't fly on one
wing" or "waiting for the other shoe to drop".
Critics and novices who haven't studied or observed the subject of the Two's in Scripture sometimes
object to the "two accounts" of Adam's creation in Genesis 1:27 and 2:7, or to the repetitive accounts in
Kings/Chronicles and the Synoptic Gospels. The study gives us a new awareness of the verse "..if any
TWO of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them".
Mt18:19.
If you don't understand about the Two's, can you ever hope to grasp the Three's?
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ELIJAH & ELISHA
ELIJAH, and then ELISHA, were two prophets chosen by God, ELIJAH would call down fire--be careful what you say or do, But he's always very hungry, and gets fed miraculously, "If you see me taken up", Elijah told Elisha, Now ELISHA was completely different--he didn't use fire at all! ELISHA was a white headed "eagle" of God, that the Children all thought of as bald, Elijah was like John the Baptist, whose ministry introduced Christ, There's more to this story than can be told in verse, and more than meets the eye, Devoted christians shudder at reading how the two she-bears tore the "children" after Elisha
cursed them, 2K2:23, but the Hebrew word for children is "naar" (youth), the same word as used for the brothers of David in 1Sam16:11.
They were scoffers, telling him to "Go up" (as Elijah had done) and thereby prophetically ridiculing the Rapture. KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR was kind of like Caesar...in Babylon he was the Head, They seemed to get smarter and wiser on this special kind of food, KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR almost had a seizure when Daniel told him his dream.. KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR had all sorts of leisure, and he made a special decree, They went into the fire, but for sure they didn't burn; the fire didn't even harm their clothes! KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR was a funny old geezer; in Babylon he ruled all the land.. It wasn't completely hopeless, he said -- a root would still remain, A diller a dollar, a 5 o'clock scholar was studying the Word of the
Lord, The City of Enoch, he noted, was built by the son of Cain.. A diller a dollar, the 5 o'clock scholar wondered why not give the city a name of its own..? A diller a dollar, the 5 o'clock scholar noticed something else that was strange.. There is a name that's above all others; and the name of David is used for a city.. A diller a dollar, the 5 o'clock scholar heard the chimes that came from the tower,
The story of Enoch as told in Genesis 5:24 leaves us hanging. We wonder: Where did he go? Not until
Jude 14 speaks of "Enoch, the 7th from Adam" are we provided a crumb of a clue which brings
awareness of the two Enoch's and two Lamech's and the generation count which eventually leads to David #33 and to
Jesus #66. GENERATIONS
Brain Train Bob Smith, Foreman AR, 5/94 The lines don't have to be so long, but when it's just a dabble, It doesn't really have to have a punch-line or a grabber, The subject of the rhyme is like a trip from here to there, The train was high and lifted up as it clickety-clacked noisily past the putrid stench of the Sioux City
stockyards and hastened on its long vicarious journey with its thirty-nine cars in tow. No man had ever
seen this train at any time, but it fairly shrieked and thundered its pervasive presence to the small
communities that flashed by periodically. Along its route they flinched and muttered as the unswerving
and implacable beast rudely proclaimed its arrival with shrill decibels of warning, followed by rattlings
and shakings, and finally low rumblings of farewell. Never had there been a train exactly like this one,
with its potpourri of strangely configured cars that attested to its widely scattered origins and unique
personality. Fact and fancy and foolishness were mingled in time from the outrages of Pearl Harbor
and Vietnam to the heady elation of recent times over the quick win in the Persian Gulf, but just now
the train filled the temple with thoughts of the journey's conclusion at the end of the silver cord.
This was a chimerical and semiotic train that couldn't be tangibly touched or seen, but which carried the
ubiquitous (everywhere) and sempiternal (always) soul of man; and nobody rode this train without
getting his ticket punched. Isa6:1, Ecc12:6.
The Solomon Decision Bob Smith, Foreman AR, 11/94
Solomon's Decision: To cut the babe in half! The Mother's true reaction: To let the baby live! Solomon's Decision: To cut the babe in half! In the devil's territory...yet we're not alone, The Godly wisdom given to Solomon supports the allegory of how mankind is both wheat and tare's, and is being raised in the devil's territory.
For sure it's not the brightest Star, The Word of God is Jesus, Salt of the Earth Colossians 4:6
Salt is for flavor, it's the Lord's spice of Life, Salt is for curing, to preserve right perspectives.. Salt softens the water, can be used in a pinch.. A sprinkle of salt for the tail of a bird, A Covenant of Salt, and don't forget pepper, Oceans of hydrogen, stuff that goes "boom",
It's well known that water is an excellent conductor of electricity. Keep appliances away from
bathtubs! Not so commonly known is that when extreme filtering removes all traces of salt, the water
can become an insulator used to cool magnetrons in high powered radar equipment.
SLOW HEART Oh fools and slow of heart, to believe all that Jesus has spoken, Lk24:25
The Rock that poured out water is now the Book that we must eat.. 1Cor10:4 O fools and slow of heart to believe the Word that God has sent... Matt6:30 (Chapter & Verse notations aren't meant to be a hindrance, and don't necessarily apply directly,
but are provided to help readers consider the context of the logic.)
RITE WRITING The fiery finger of GOD wrote The Law That Old Covenant they had was for The gentle finger of Jesus wrote the He was the one who became the goat for us, The literal truth comes first, It may not be just what you think, "How do I know what I think, until I see what I say?", asked E. M. Forster (1879-l970). Writing it down is like the
handshake to a verbal confession. Deut17:18 required a king to make a copy of the Law. Now, in the 20th Century,
we can all have our own copy, and be kings and priests able to minister in our own temple.
he threw his mantle to Elisha, and into the heavens he soared.
so they got special permission to eat only 'pulse'..
It doesn't have to use big words or veiled innuendo,
Well then, maybe you ought to check it out in your own Bible!
We're horrified at such a gross incision..
A shaker of Salt, but don't over do it..
the purpose of teaching a lesson,
The Beautiful People, so suave on the tube, It's "very irreverent" they tell you with glee, With sly innuendo and gestures profane Laughing and joking, but all to their shame.. The Beautiful People, so smart and so clever,
Riding it Out! Psalm 107:23
All hands on deck, We're shoving off, The Admiral says we must... We're making turns for 20 knots, the wind is off our stern.. The deck is pitching 'neath our feet, the generators humming.. "Now hear this", the Captain said, "The worst is yet to come!" Steady as you go there, Mates --Now the wind is on our quarter.. The howling wind, the surging gale, the ship in tempest flailing, The bosun's whistle sounded shrill, piercing every ear.. So lash down everything in sight.. We aren't yet done careening, Boring Ballet Doing nothing is a bore!
You must do this, You can't do that, Bored to death and bored to tears Plowing up the same old sea The God that never changes has DOOR OF METAPHOR, John10 You don't believe the Bible? Well, that's okay with me... It's not a door that's made of wood -- it doesn't swing on hinges, It's not a door that you can see, except in your mind's eye.. This Door is automatic when the name of Christ is named,
"..Let US go down and confound their language...", Gen11:7. Most take this to mean the beginning of different
languages and geographic colloquialisms, but figures of speech (including metaphors) may play an important part
too. Read about more than 200 "Figures of Speech used in the Bible" by E.W.Bullinger (Baker Book House).
Who is "US"? Could it be the same folks Jesus referrred to
as "we" in John 3:11? God came down on the mountain, Ex19:11, and Jesus came as a baby, and the Holy Ghost as a
wind: they came in succession. Bible students may appreciate how the word "succeed" is found uniquely in
Deuteronomy 25:6. Shoo In A horse is a horse of course, but a fiery horse is harder to shoe!
A horse that's on fire is a sight to inspire and won't ever be sold for glue!
To be amused, or else to muse, is sublime beyond all question,
To be a horse, or ride a horse, is a matter quite equestrian.
When you saddle up too seriously, you may be riding for a fall,
So take time to see the lighter side, and have yourself a ball!
Just in time for Christmas
Everything's in place..
Season's Greeting's Everyone
Until we see His face
Soon He will be coming..
Christmas Tree who died
How He'll be rejoicing..
Returning for His bride!
I'm holding Jacobs Ladder tight
Seeing our elopement night lead
To honeymoon's delight!
A truth that won't hold water How do you tell if it's bogus? Truth's not always what it seems; A vessel who's the Spring of Life, The Truth was planted like a seed, LONGSHOT.. Don't despise your birthright! God's mercy endures forever, Think of it as a longshot.. Forget it, if you're not Sincere, SPIRITUAL COMPASS Ps103:12, 48:2, 75:6, As far as East is from the West, He throws our dirty linen.. As far as East is from the West--you'll have to turn around... Sailing. 1Tim1:19, Jn6:21
John 6:21 tells us "they willingly received [Jesus] into the ship; and
immediately the ship was at the land whither they went." Can't you just picture the rooster-tail on that ship!
If you really believe it, you'll pay close attention, Busy, busy, busy.. there's just so much to do! To tithe my time, to take a rest, I'll do it all, and by myself, Busy, busy, busy.. Time is short, I fear.. Bob Smith, Catania Sicily, 8/87
The Sword of the Lord, and Gideon...conquered all of the foe The 300 men of Gideon quenched their thirst in the Water of Life, A certain Man sowed a certain seed, and then departed hence, The certain sprout eventually grew up into a mighty tree, Came the day the fence did fall, apparently for one and all,
How men are poetically analagous to trees is fundamental to Old Testament scriptures: Judges 9,
Isaiah 5, 61. The New Testament carries along this theme with the emphasis on the fig and the olive
tree in Mark 4 and Romans 11. Metaphorically the olive tree with its oil came first to light the way: a
corporate Jewish tree which produced Christ. Then came the fig tree symbolizing the fruitful "times of
the Gentiles". First Adam, then Eve. First the Jew, then the Gentile.
Have you been on the road to Damascus? Have you asserted your right to protest? So finally I've taken the bull by the horns, and set out to see for myself, Were they saying it like this all along, and I just didn't have ears to hear? He claimed that the things he preached were from the Holy Bible.. The things I read in Genesis didn't make good sense at all.. If God were real, I once reasoned, Would anything be too tough for Him? The answers to these questions are now made clear to me, Paul's trip on the Road to Damascus was for the purpose of exposing a lie... Foolishness? Sometime's it's fitting to unravel the knitting I'm really dead serious this isn't deleterious Just a little poison in a pot that once was clean Just a little poison in a pot without a crack Just a little poison in a pot that doesn't leak, Just a little poison in a pot we've grown to trust Yes, Amen! Is the Pope Catholic? If it isn't worth saying, why give it the time? Anyone for Flying?
Come fly with me and let us see Up through the clouds, escaping the crowds, We'll soar and we'll swoop, And when it's all over and we glide down to The Other Gods
Let me set the record straight about the other gods... Don't tread upon the Bible; our forefathers knew it well, Then came the Law of Liberty, the new Covenant of His Love, So we started as a nation ruled by "what is written", On hands and knees, over broken glass, they'd crawl
"By two it's established", Gen41:32, and this applies to the God of the Bible, and the "god of this world", 2Cor4:4.
Just the two. What about Dagon, Molech, Ashtaroth, Tammuz, Baal, etc? They aren't real but only graven images
or impersonators of Satan. How intelligent people could bring themselves to kiss or bow down to objects carved by
mortals is one of life's great mysteries. This poem aims at the fallacy and idiocy of giving lip service to the God of
the Bible, while at the same time excluding it from school rooms. Not only is our nation filled with modern Pharisees
and Sadducees who don't understand the true meaning of Scripture, but now we have the Advocates of Baal who
would have us believe in another God or that all gods are equal. For shame!
Feet of Clay Dan2:31 A baby is that "head of gold", so perfect, precious, fine, Thighs and belly made of brass, the ripening of the fruit, Mankind has run the human race this past six thousand years, Heating in the crucible, ceramics made of clay..
Not until the Apostle Paul wrote of celestial and terrestrial bodies, and the figurative "body" of the church, could
we with hindsight appreciate the double significance of this dream. The "heads" were the succession of the kings of
Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Similarly, a human body progresses from infant to youth, adult, and
maturity: having 'feet of clay' (worldly reasoning) mixed with some truth and strength of the Word of God.
Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams of the cows and corn, explaining how it meant 7 years of good harvest
followed by 7 years of famine. Not until recent times were we able to see how the 20 centuries of Old Covenant for
the Jews (putting the bread in the storehouse: the Bible) would be followed by an equal period of time for the Gentiles to feed on this Living Bread; the Word.
Dressed to Kill.... Are you dressed to go to heaven? Are you wearing shoes to match? Not many know about the unique Joseph coat, The garment God gave Jesus was a body "dipped in blood", Are you dressed to go to heaven? Is the Garment of Praise a fit?
It wasn't his grandmother or a maiden aunt who provided Joseph with the coat of many colors--it was his father!
A parallel, or prophetic illustration, of how Jesus came "in a body prepared", Heb10:5, to offer salvation to all colors
and races of men. Just as that Joseph in Egypt was a type of saviour to his people, in providing them with bread, so
Jesus came in his own time as the "true bread", Jn6:35.
The nakedness of the flesh is a reality for us to compare with spiritual nakedness. Adam & Eve got their eyes
opened (fig. of speech) after they'd eaten from the Tree, and now we do the same when we become aware of the truth
of God's Word. Initially they dressed in fig leaves (covering from the fig tree), but the LORD provided coats of
animal skins -- a figure of the spiritual Robe which comes from the Lamb of God.
This poem stresses the comparison between literal and figurative garments, because teachers use examples and
analogy to explain new subjects. Teachers who deny the allegories fail to recognize this tremendous race card, in the
comparison of the coat of many colors with Jesus' body. Salvation is for any whosoever, no matter the color!
Didy Doll I made a doll from rags and straw that looked a lot like me.. She didn't know -- How could she? So I patiently explained,
Oh the ship is reeling crazily.. We're tossed from stem to stern
A Season for Reason
Is it truth?..or is it a lie?
Listen to some sound advice,
Your boat won't sink or even founder
Without Christ it's not Christian,
It's only tradition prescribed by the thinking of fools,
Unless you're obeying what The Word is saying,
you'll never be one of His jewels.
not giving lip service that merely makes mention.
There's one day in April in honor of you,
who sit on the dunce stool instead of the pew.
Unless "It is written", it surely ain't fittin',
to pretend you're keeping his rules..
Don't bother praying if what you are saying
is a lot like the braying of mules.
so keep the horses in front of the carts,
Don't lead with a lie when the stakes are so high,
It's His TRUTH that's the genesis of smarts!
Hurry, hurry, hurry..I never will get through!
Afterwards the certain sprout looked round about and thought:
This poem is based primarily on the parables of "the sower who sowed the seed", from Mk4, Lk8,
and Mt13. Also, note how Jesus must be the "seed" of John 12:24 and the seed and word of
1Pet1:23. He's the Vine and we're the branches.
A Little Poison
Listen carefully to learn: It's the logic that they lack!
I lived with the pigs long enough, and my Father was waiting for me,