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A rich, young ruler / with somewhere to go.
A home in hell—just what the rapist / needs, I pray

 

 

Book by Jeannette Drake

 

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook

 

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Deliverance

                                         (After Oprah's show)

By Jeannette Drake

At first I want
the unnamed rapist
to die. "A five-month
old baby," Ricky M.
reports. Raw news.
A rich, young ruler
with somewhere to go.
A home in hell—
just what the rapist
needs, I pray
'til from a distance
a distant plane I hear
Mother say, Lord H'am
Mercy, give up the hate.
Sanctification needs
to be his fate.
Open heaven's gate.

Lord H'am Mercy.
Christ Have Mercy. 

 

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update 3 August 2008

 

 

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