Wednesday, November 24, 2010

there were lines of people....

lines and lines around the block.....
they were clamoring to get in...
pounding their fists and punching and kicking the others standing beside them..
they were DESPERATE to get into the building...
i mean, they were beside themselves !!
and it was pouring !
and there they were..
getting drenched...
getting soaked to the bone....
just to get in !!
the 'ONE' who was purported to be in the building...
he was really supposed to be something...
they raved about his wisdom, his prophesies...
they couldn't get enough of him...
some even followed this 'swengali' around the world...
sleeping at roadside stops...
just in order to catch a 'pearl of wisdom'...
just to be in the airspace of the great GURU.....
so...
after all...
what was a little water in the face of such GODLINESS ?

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