Sunday, January 31, 2010

poem for a Sunday morning

Poor, Sleepy Eutychus

Poor, sleepy Eutychus,
A-sittin' without squirmin',
Perching on a window ledge
To hear an endless sermon.

Now his eyes are droopy,
Sittin' way up high;
Poor, sleepy Eutychus
Is just about to die.

Saint Paul keeps on a-preachin'
To our hero snoozin' hard;
Then Euty leans into the air
And crashes in the yard.

But Paul is an apostle,
Quite unlike other men;
Down he runs to Eutychus
And gives him life again.

So if you're gonna sleep in church,
Don't from a window fall;
The man up front a-preachin'
Is not Apostle Paul.

-John Knapp II, taken from My Book of Bible Rhymes

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