The cold hard past called on me today- 
It came beating down my door- 
Bent on destruction and living in the past... 
Beating its drums of vengeful war;  
Conclusion 'tis that sleeping dawgs always bark- 
And they never forget a mistake... 
Coming with the verity of a deep saber bite- 
Digging up the Earth at a grave fully awake;  
Why do these dawgs want to hold on and not forgive?  
Are they indeed more rightous than God?  
Who has forgiven all-who confessed and repented... 
From their life of sins upon this sod;  
Twenty four years have come and gone- 
And He found me along my wrong way... 
No longer lost in what alchohol caused... 
New reality has been mine twenty fours years today;
Theodora (Theo) Onken
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