Perfect imperfection

Perfect Imperfection

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I look out of my window and see your beauty

You are wholesomely breathtaking yet so imperfect

The mountains on your shoulders are mind-blowing

But the wounds on your heart so sickening

You are altogether beautiful and yet so wretched

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You give birth to beautiful angels, a wonder to behold

But murder them in the morning by their mother

You raise them as leaders but soon turn them to thieves

What your right hand builds the left destroys

You are virtuous but detestable, perfectly imperfect

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Men give their lives for you, toiling to build you up

But you consume their children and the labor of their hands

They call you mother earth but you are a monster

You eat your own and drink their sweat of blood

You look so perfect and tender yet are so cruel and imperfect

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Our mistake is we never learn from your martyrs

We keep offering ourselves and our children to you

Sacrificing them on the altar of a better tomorrow

But your tomorrow has nothing better to offer

How perfectly we are deceived of your imperfections

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So I call out on what remains of your children

Wake up and ran for your lives, your mother is a monster

And Lo! I have seen a better one coming from above

She carries her own and brings them safely home

She’s perfect and has no imperfections

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She’s coated with gold, peace and justice

She’s built on truth and righteousness

A mother who tenderly cares for her own

She’s worth dying for and she dies in waiting for her children

She’s altogether beautiful, virtuous and perfectly perfect

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She’s feeds her children with the truth

And clothes them with righteousness

She’s ensures justice and equality for all

She has no sickness or infirmities 

She’s a caring mother and our perfect home

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She is a mother to all who believe

The Jerusalem above, city of our God

And our eternal home with our Saviour

So I look out again, yearning for her coming

Longing for our perfect eternal home

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