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Welcoming the Stranger
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat
I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink
I was a stranger, and you invited me in
I needed clothes, and you clothed me
I was sick, and you looked after me
I was in prison, and you came to visit me.
Then the righteous will answer him
'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you
or thirsty, and give you something to drink?
when did we see you a stranger, and invite you in
or needing clothes, and clothe you?
When did we see you sick
or in prison, and go to visit you?'.
The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you
whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine
you did for me.'
In faithful response to Jesus' kind loving message
we fight the illegal immigrant, she's undocumented
the refugee who lost everything she's got
single-family detached-home, hubby and kids
- all gone with the wind
bystanders bombarded with projectiles
WMD grenades made-in-the-USA, Chlorine gas
their own fault who the fuck do they think they are
being precisely at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Let's get the Hell of here
the refugee is badly hit, and runs away
trusting on some genuine humanity
of her rich global village neighbors
but the arrogant Muslim neighbor
in Saudi Arabia sends her away, in cold blood
'is not enough trash already overpopulating
my 10-star hotel Sterling silver garbage bin?'
Fortunately, compassionate Christian neighbors
in the G-8 banana republic of the EU & the USA
do welcome the poor refugee
heart-melting, almost humane rhetorics
enhanced with electrocuting iron gates
Mexican walls, paid by low-cost refugees
low EQ Gestapo immigration officers
and a general population, stubbornly refusing
to get 'swamped' by their Muslim brothers
aggressive suicide bombers & wife beaters.
When it's YOUR turn to become a refugee
sister, believe me it's a When - not an If
don't trust in nobody - Jesus is out for lunch
your hubby's dead, nobody else's standing by you
avoid the German wilkommenskultur, in particular
Self-acclaimed good Samaritans, like the plague
the Zika virus, the HIV, terminal Prostate Cancer
or mean coppers visiting you, after midnight
without warning, like obnoxious thieves in the night
without search warrant, or indeed arrest warrant.
my humble two-penn'orth, dearest refugee
please go back to where you came from
or, in the name of Sweet Jesus - go to Hell.
Footnote - Credit given where credit is due: 'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God (Leviticus: 19-34), see also Matthew: 25-35, and the daily front page's news on the fates and fortunes of the undocumented, untouchable, and outlawed refugee class, all women created equal, yet invariably obstructed in their righteous pursuit of happiness.
I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink
I was a stranger, and you invited me in
I needed clothes, and you clothed me
I was sick, and you looked after me
I was in prison, and you came to visit me.
Then the righteous will answer him
'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you
or thirsty, and give you something to drink?
when did we see you a stranger, and invite you in
or needing clothes, and clothe you?
When did we see you sick
or in prison, and go to visit you?'.
The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you
whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine
you did for me.'
In faithful response to Jesus' kind loving message
we fight the illegal immigrant, she's undocumented
the refugee who lost everything she's got
single-family detached-home, hubby and kids
- all gone with the wind
bystanders bombarded with projectiles
WMD grenades made-in-the-USA, Chlorine gas
their own fault who the fuck do they think they are
being precisely at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Let's get the Hell of here
the refugee is badly hit, and runs away
trusting on some genuine humanity
of her rich global village neighbors
but the arrogant Muslim neighbor
in Saudi Arabia sends her away, in cold blood
'is not enough trash already overpopulating
my 10-star hotel Sterling silver garbage bin?'
Fortunately, compassionate Christian neighbors
in the G-8 banana republic of the EU & the USA
do welcome the poor refugee
heart-melting, almost humane rhetorics
enhanced with electrocuting iron gates
Mexican walls, paid by low-cost refugees
low EQ Gestapo immigration officers
and a general population, stubbornly refusing
to get 'swamped' by their Muslim brothers
aggressive suicide bombers & wife beaters.
When it's YOUR turn to become a refugee
sister, believe me it's a When - not an If
don't trust in nobody - Jesus is out for lunch
your hubby's dead, nobody else's standing by you
avoid the German wilkommenskultur, in particular
Self-acclaimed good Samaritans, like the plague
the Zika virus, the HIV, terminal Prostate Cancer
or mean coppers visiting you, after midnight
without warning, like obnoxious thieves in the night
without search warrant, or indeed arrest warrant.
my humble two-penn'orth, dearest refugee
please go back to where you came from
or, in the name of Sweet Jesus - go to Hell.
Footnote - Credit given where credit is due: 'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God (Leviticus: 19-34), see also Matthew: 25-35, and the daily front page's news on the fates and fortunes of the undocumented, untouchable, and outlawed refugee class, all women created equal, yet invariably obstructed in their righteous pursuit of happiness.
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