“When
I get bothered by another ape, I often tend ta brood and get uptight.
My mind might start ta play an angry tape, to wit, that they were
wrong and I was right! So then the melodrama has begun, and I'm the
star, inside my little mind. It's me who is the much-offended one, to
my responsibility quite blind! So, Heaven, help my crazy monkey out,
whenever I start getting nuts like that! I need ta love my Self,
without a doubt, and loving Them as well, is where it's at! I let my
pride deceive me once again, so sure that I'm a saint, and they are
not. Then I be lost as I have ever been, so sure I'm cool, but really
runnin' hot! How truly crazy I can sometimes get, and then I need the
Lord ta straighten me. Or else the men in white might bring a Net,
and padded walls I'll be real sure ta See! So, Heaven, help me always
Keep my cool, in Jesus' peace and love each day abide. If I persist
in actin' like a fool, the monkey's greased the slope down which
he'll slide! Ain't that right?”
Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford
