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Social Redemption provides technology and social networking in order to increase information flow within the Progressive Christian movement: www.socialredemption.net
Check this link out... it's a page that my son Nick created to share the gospel: The-Gospel-of-Jesus If you checked it out before, it's totally worth a revisit as it's been completely redone!
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BATTLE THE BEAST
BY, WILLIAM M. COOPER, “COOP”
THE NIGHT CAME QUICKER THAN USUAL, AND IT CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE
BEFORE I FOUND SOME SHELTER, THE BLACKNESS DIMMED MY EYES
MY PANICKED HEART WAS POUNDING, MY LEGS INSTINCTIVELY TOOK FLIGHT
I AIMLESSLY RAN IN CIRCLES, IN THE HORROR OF BLACKEST NIGHT
IN THE DISTANCE I COULD HEAR IT, THE SOUNDS OF A TERRIBLE BEAST
I COULD HEAR ITS CLAWS SCRATCHING, I COULD SEE THE FLASH OF ITS TEETH
THERE WAS NO WAY TO OUTRUN IT, FOR IT TRAVELED ON ALL FOURS
SO, LEFT WITH JUST ONE PROSPECT, I TURNED AND FACED THE NOISE
THE BLADE I HELD HAD A FAINT SPARKLE, ILLUMINED FROM DISTANT STARS
THE BEAST KNEW I WOULD USE IT, AS IT STALKED ME FROM AFAR
MY WAIT DRUG ON FOR ETERNITY, AS I FIRMLY STOOD MY GROUND
BUT SOON IT WOULD BE OVER, FOR I HEARD APPROACHING SOUNDS
THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I PURPOSEFULLY PLANNED, TO NEVER TRAVEL BY NIGHT
IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO MISS THE BEAST, AND AVOID A DEADLY FIGHT
YET, LIFE HAS A SENSE OF JUSTICE, NOT WILLING TO LET ME CHEAT THOSE PLANS
FROM FACING THE BEAST WHO STALKS ME, FROM FACING WHAT HAUNTS A MAN
A SILHOUETTE SPRANG OUT OF THE BLACKNESS, STRIKING HARD THE FIRST BLOW
I VOLLEYED BACK WITH THE TIP OF MY BLADE, CAUSING THE BEAST TO MOAN
COLLAPSING TOGETHER, MORTALLY WOUNDED, THE DAWN BEGAN TO BREAK
I SAW THE BEAST THAT HAD ATTACKED ME, IT WAS MYSELF, IN WHOM, I FACED
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PS, Feel free to copy and share anything you like from my profile and blogs. Also, just to let you know, my friend, Solvei and the group Southern Souls are currently creating music for this and other poems of mine. Check out this web site to view my newest book:
http://www.lostword.info/coop
It contains fifteen short stories and a good amount of poetry. Hope you find my friendship inspirational. Take care. Respectfully, Hebrews 13:1, “Let brotherly love continue.” Coop
