Ifone has a charism
it can not be held within
lest it be a pharisaism
like eating the truth and giving only a grin.
To each a charismis given
not for one's merit and glory
but for a lifting up and to enliven
the world with the truth of its story.
The truth of a charism's reach
is not for the charismatic only,
it is for the truth of its teach
for the kind, the haughty and the lonely.
If one has the charism of love
it must not be a barn unto its self
not as a sacrifice of offering a dove
as if it were the only offering left.
If one has the charism of tongues
and jabbers in the halls all day
until the wind fell out of the lungs,
of what good potion if understand had not say.
Charism has a fiery furnace to stoke;
its embers must not be left to ash
lest its Fireman come to invoke
its possessor with the grace of a lash.
Cage not your charism as if for a circus act ,
it is a gift of greater showmanship
than any tent's fiery preacher's flack ;
so,go forth,not with a bowman's quip.
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Submission Name: Charisms
