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© 1998 Catherine Munro
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Eeny meenie miney mow
Take a harrow to your soul
If you falter, don't let go
Eeny meenie miney mow.

Turn the soil of fallow dreams
Tear through mats of stifled screams
Unearth terror, unearth shame
Rip the meaning from your name
Drown desire and faith and need
Slash the roots of guilt and greed
Bury thought in rank manure
Till your heart cannot endure.
Pull up worms and buried lies
Spread them naked to the skies
Till your every nerve and vein
Stretches taut in waiting pain
Struggle on with gasping breath
To the very edge of death.

Truth and grace demand their toll
Take the harrow to your soul
Don't you falter, don't let go
Eeny meenie miney mow.

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