Kit Kelen - for godsbother #9 - I am a terrible tyrant and bully

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I am a terrible tyrant and bully

I am thinking out loud

(God knows why)

I am talking to myself again

I am

… that's the main thing to remember

comes in all languages

how long is it since supper now?

do what I say, not what I do

never try this at home

deliver however many warnings you like

there's flood

there's famine

there's fire

you think you can build a tower

cosy up?

I never listen to my own advice

there's only one voice I can hear

I have a waiting room

it's hard to read with the coughing in there

alright, you look back

be a pillar of salt

pillar of pepper

for all I care

you can choose what you like to believe

I love a fatal flaw

I am a terrible bully

make breezes

and petals for roses to show

such sweet perfume

as loves must lure

I like to be a little blinding

and I visit with plagues and with pox

see my clouds

they're like no others

stars to show

how far

I've come

I like a little something

burnt at the stake

like my wrath

medium rare

that's just to let you know

I'm for real

make that gospel

why do I bother?

I could let it all go

wouldn't the deists love that?

they're all iced

yes I am a vengeful fucker

you bet

you think that I'm mad

to write it all down

collecting the curses

to keep in this little box

yes, you in the back

I am talking to you

the one with your family on fire

quit that shrieking

I have beatific moments too

and rapture from rubbing the world

the right way

I'm the truth to set you free

out of my way you mortal

as destined

let's see how you go with that

I'm the long shadow

day and night

get on with your rejoicing

it's tedious but needed

think of me as your CEO

some days I am institutional

big papa Zeus rapes all in his path

you take a dim view?

that's the problem with your kind

I'm who does the judging

here

and there

and everywhere

have a go at conscientious objecting

try to imagine the dry bones rising

on the last of days

yes, you could think of that as a punch line

but it isn't the best of my jokes

tickets on me?

my silence is bluster

there isn't a pigeon hole that I'll fit

I am a terrible tyrant

I roar

o insolence to question

and when I damn you

I know where to

it's on for young and old

there is no coming back

but I invented the dance

take my steps

like breeze to leaf bear up

there is no detail

below my means

you think of dragonflies

I make each atom-world

in their eyes

when I blow

and your world goes out

blink and it's the same

am I looking?

Peekaboo!

do I read your mind

I am what you're thinking now

you want to get out of the storm?

well I'm it

I am a dreadful slave driver

quit stalling – get your back into

doubts! will only draw you closer

why is it they all cling to my raft

when blindness would be better?

don't they know that I'm the shark too

and I'm the knife kept out sight

what is the punishment they crave?

No, I have thought a way through that

and I have something better

let me be your briney deep

I am the wings of love

and I am all of the heavens above

I came up in the first lift

you can only imagine the seventh

I go for forever

have you heard the choir up there?

then who do you think is conducting?

who is it dares to do my voice?

I smite

you know I'm bearded for it

and testicles to boot

all that stuff at the back of your head

when you can't get to sleep

yours truly

I sign

I'm the buck stops

yes it's all about me

would you like the calling card?

think twice before you say

I am a terrible tyrant

I roar

let's go out to the desert together

I'll show you mine

and of course it's symbolic

I love an exegete

a holy war when the hunger comes

if somebody's wrong

then it's not me

I am a dreadful bastard you know

just don't ask 'how's your father?'

but I did make the garden

I made you stand upright

call names

I'm a long way back

I'm the one who...

it's easy to point a finger

better to make your hands a prayer

better because I say

I'm dreaming now

you can save yourself

it's never too late

fat lady's still mum

don't come to me

with your casket of foreskin

I've got some commandments for you

Christ!

can't you lug a few simple tablets

do I have to say everything twice?

all obey my will

it's nicer

I'm God all day long

I'm a terrible bully

I'm best when I'm vengeful and cruel

you will do what I say

how it delights to make music for me

I lie on this couch

sing from the beginning

some of me would like to be women

and some would well, doctor, you know

I take it the simple nod will suffice

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there are so many

last out please get the lights

could you?