The Duct Tape Bible
By Larry Linville
He carries a paperback Bible.
It’s well used there’s no doubt.
Pages are bent and dog eared
And it has book marks all about.
The outside colors have faded much.
Duct tape holds the cover together.
It appears it’s the only Bible for him.
There cannot be any other.
It didn’t get this way sitting on the shelf.
It’s from preparing for Sunday School.
This has worn it inside and out.
And in it’s own way, it looks so cool.
What shape is your Bible today?
Does it on your coffee table stay?
Or is it something you reach for
At the beginning of every day?
© Copyright 2007 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com).
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2 comments:
Reminds me of the Bible I received at the Green City Methodist Church in 1956---it was the black leather type with a zipper---the zipper worn out a long time ago and the binding is loose. I want to keep it so I do not use it---but when I think of my Confirmation class and a Rev. Bob Belsey in 1960 I get it out---he told us it was ok to mark in your Bible and underline--I have the verses and books that meant the most to me underlined in red.
I was inspired to write this on Sunday as the Sunday School teacher was reading from his Bible and I saw the duct tape.
I'm going to print this off and give it to him on Sunday.
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