damn, you have a way with words. very powerful piece. <P>there was a lot that i liked about it, but the following was particularly deep:<P>"missionaries<BR> content to love everything about you but you<BR> wish they could wish your pain away with their fear<BR> pray for you but refuse you life<BR> here they<BR> dance in the light of the servitude"<P>keep writing. hope some more people check this out. this is even more powerful, and disturbing, juxtaposed against the recent diallo-inspired poems that have been on the board lately... from the current climate of the country, this type of thing could just as easily happen tomorrow, as there remain just as many snakes in the river jordan, as you so concisely put it. <P>x.