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YOU ARE MY CHILD.
YOU ARE MY CHILD.
Why do you treat Me like the Lord,
Whom you fear and pay heed to meet?
Am l an emperor or judge
whom just to meet is what you fear?
I want Myself to be your dear,
just like your father or your mum.
You go to them with great delight
not frightened to make yourself clear.
How can you love the judge who sits
with majesty and will decide
the scaffold or to set you free?
You quiver when you see his sight.
Approach Me with your heart with glee.
I am your tender Mum whose eyes
will share your pleasure and your tears
and loves to keep you near her heart.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Why do you treat Me like the Lord,
Whom you fear and pay heed to meet?
Am l an emperor or judge
whom just to meet is what you fear?
I want Myself to be your dear,
just like your father or your mum.
You go to them with great delight
not frightened to make yourself clear.
How can you love the judge who sits
with majesty and will decide
the scaffold or to set you free?
You quiver when you see his sight.
Approach Me with your heart with glee.
I am your tender Mum whose eyes
will share your pleasure and your tears
and loves to keep you near her heart.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
____________________________________
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
Anonymous
1st Dec 2022 10:06pm
There is much to say about all of your work, yet so often the time slips away. One day soon i trust, it shall not be lacking, and then there will be room for much to be said
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
2nd Dec 2022 6:40am
Very dear Em-ily,
Thank you very much for your great concern. It is very valuable to me. I need it as it gives me great encouragement. I would love to know what you think of my poetry. It will help me a lot. J.Z.
Thank you very much for your great concern. It is very valuable to me. I need it as it gives me great encouragement. I would love to know what you think of my poetry. It will help me a lot. J.Z.
Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
"You quiver when you see his sight" is extremely clumsy writing since "his sight" means "the power or faculty of seeing" "the field of vision" that belongs to a particular male".
If you meant to say "you quiver when you see his face" (or "you quiver when you see him face to face"), you haven't done so.
If you meant to say "you quiver when you see his face" (or "you quiver when you see him face to face"), you haven't done so.
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
Dear Baldwin,
I am sorry to say you are wrong again. Sight: is something that is seen.
I am sorry to say you are wrong again. Sight: is something that is seen.
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But "his sight " is not. For you to be speaking of a person who someone sees, you'd have to have written "the sight of him."
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No, they are not the same.
his sight = the sight that belongs to him
sight of him = act of seeing
[uncountable] the act of seeing somebody/something
sight of somebody/something She kept sight of him in her mirror.
She caught sight of a car in the distance.
After ten days at sea, we had our first sight of land.
The mere sight of him makes me want to scream.
sight of somebody/something doing something The sight of him hobbling off so early in the match depressed everyone.
at the sight He laughed quietly to himself at the sight.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/sight_1
his sight = the sight that belongs to him
sight of him = act of seeing
[uncountable] the act of seeing somebody/something
sight of somebody/something She kept sight of him in her mirror.
She caught sight of a car in the distance.
After ten days at sea, we had our first sight of land.
The mere sight of him makes me want to scream.
sight of somebody/something doing something The sight of him hobbling off so early in the match depressed everyone.
at the sight He laughed quietly to himself at the sight.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/sight_1
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
3rd Dec 2022 11:50am
"Why do you treat Me like the Lord,
Whom you fear and pay heed to meet?
Am l an emperor or judge
whom just to meet is what you fear?"
What do you understand "pay heed" to mean?
Whom you fear and pay heed to meet?
Am l an emperor or judge
whom just to meet is what you fear?"
What do you understand "pay heed" to mean?
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
In the manner of J-Z
Why am I a person who
you fear to meet
and why is meeting me
just what you fear?
Am I to you not dear?
Take heed, I say,
to see I am
not worth your frightened tears
For I to you
should be the sight
of one who ’s comforting
and dear
just like your mum
and dad..
I am not one
to judge you bad
and judge you aimed
to climb
the scaffold and the gibbet to be hanged
I’m one whose praises should
be sung
as if a kindly Lord
who has renounced
the sword.
So come to me
and see
I am your source
of happiness and glee
and your reward
not painful pangs.
No, no, don’t start!
You are my child
and I am one who’s mild
and holds you dear
within my heart.
Why am I a person who
you fear to meet
and why is meeting me
just what you fear?
Am I to you not dear?
Take heed, I say,
to see I am
not worth your frightened tears
For I to you
should be the sight
of one who ’s comforting
and dear
just like your mum
and dad..
I am not one
to judge you bad
and judge you aimed
to climb
the scaffold and the gibbet to be hanged
I’m one whose praises should
be sung
as if a kindly Lord
who has renounced
the sword.
So come to me
and see
I am your source
of happiness and glee
and your reward
not painful pangs.
No, no, don’t start!
You are my child
and I am one who’s mild
and holds you dear
within my heart.
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
14th Dec 2022 9:56pm
Oh my God!!! This is the BEST attempt to show people what God is and how he loves people, what the connection between God and man is and should be, if man is unsure how to perceive God. This poem you've bequeathed to all of us is so helpful, I hope more people will read it.
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Re. YOU ARE MY CHILD.
15th Dec 2022 10:08am
Very dear Boyana,
Thank you very much for your great encouragement, and your valuable comments, which l need every letter of them as they give me the courage to write exactly about my feelings and the experience l go through. I live every word l write in my poetry. Thank God you like my writings.
Thank you very much for your great encouragement, and your valuable comments, which l need every letter of them as they give me the courage to write exactly about my feelings and the experience l go through. I live every word l write in my poetry. Thank God you like my writings.