Tony is Burning (For Kate Upton)!!!!

*dedicated to St. Jude

*dedicated to Ambassador, Gimme Dat

http://youtu.be/rytwGHd3iDw

------------------/Tony is Burning

Kate, your eyes like Sapphire stones

on chalices of wine in the Egypt from which you absconded:

the suffocating dour decorum of the haughty modeling aristocracy

amused at the rigors of the industry, like taskmasters

with whips of rocks sewn between braided cords.

You inverted royalty, exchanging the drab for buoyant sands of Midian.

Your optimism, that good natured and humorous ‘cool girl’s’ soul

a shepherd to the flock of those fans who cherish you.  

Let my love for you appear sudden and unexpectedly,

my heart a bush with flames of unquenchable passion

(for your dancing, your smile, your style)

that miraculously doesn’t consume all of me. And your shoes

though natty, must part from your feet

because of my desire… its so pure, that every place you step

has become holy, sacrosanct.

I call out Moses, Moses to commission for you a new destiny.

Kate, Kate go back to Pharaoh:

the media circus, the runways, the magazines, the oppressors,

 as a herald of emancipation to my people-

every single man in America who cynically scoffs at ideologies

and laughs at notions that good and beautiful girls from Egypt don’t exist.

If anyone begs the question,

reply that I AM sent you –

I AM thejesusmetaphor who is deeply crushing on you.

(DATE ME KATE UPTON, OH PLEASE PLEASE???!!! E-MAIL ME AT thejesusmetaphor@yahoo.com!!!!)

-----------Exodus 3:1-14

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.

----Gimme Dat Lyrics

(AMBA!)

 Gimme dat fire (fire)

 Gimme dat flame (flame, flame)

 Gimme dat (gimme dat)

 Gimme dat (gimme dat)

 Gimme dat (gimme dat)

 Absolutely you can gimme dat

 If its mine (gimme dat)

 Its good for me (gimme dat)

 I want it all

Gimme dat bible

 Gimme dat mic

 Ill drop Jesus anyway so he can make a disciple

 Cant surpass Christ theres no takin his title

 A passion for Christ Ill have you prayin for revival

 Gimma my city, yeah

 Gimme dat let's fish

 Gospel of peace, yeah

 You can give me dat fresh kicks

 Gimme dat

 Vest with your blessin Lord Im desperate

 You gave me your life

 So I look forward to my exit

 I used to be a punk-kid

 Used to wanna run, with

 Dudes dat wanna hunt that

 Turned our ones into hundreds

 Used to run the blunt to be blunt

 I wanted trees just to alter my mind

 Now I find im wantin Jesus

Used to run and roll mad deep with the street clique

 Corner holdin heat on the low like a secret

 Gods spirit penetrated my soul on a sneak tip

 Took control now Im in his floor like a leaflet

Gimme dat fire

 Gimme dat flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

Gimme dat fire, flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

I know you got riches

 I know you got ice

 Your life is a big party

 Youre partyin all night

 You dont mind not knowin Christ

 In your mind dats alright

 You might not get this now

 But youre kind of a Saul type

You keep with the trends

 Cools your middle name

 On your pants you got a chain

 The juice like Lil Wayne

 Youre tattooed in a Benz

 Maybe youre inarranged

 Ladies, you drivin crazy

 Nothins crazier than your frame!

 (This is a shame!)

Its the age and Im game

 To be an agent of change

 And at age, its like a page in a flame

 Just smoke, just mirrors, just vapor is plain

 You see, a Holy God is not one of your favorite things

 I was just like you,

 But God moved on a fellow

 Gave me good news

 Dat I could use on the ghetto

 Maybe its you who wants a

 U-turn to settle

 You dead or you do??

 Ill tell you its been settled

Gimme dat fire

 Gimme dat flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

Gimme dat fire, flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

So you got platinum?

 We got our Lord

 If we want, we could ask him

 But hes our reward

 Gotta be perfect

 It cant be three out of four

 If youre sick of fallin short

 Then he got a cure

Gimme dat cure, dat door, dat hero

 Gimme dat grace dat never chased the dinero

 How much glory should you give your boy? Zero

 That would cause beef with the Lamb like a Gyro

Gimme dat day reaches you over shinin

 Truth over rhymin

 Virtue over diamonds

 Gimme some change

 Sometimes I do need the dough

 Gimme some pain

 Somethin I do need to grow

Gimme what I wont ask for

 Dont gimme what I seek

 When I creep, Im a sheep

 Gimme your pasture

 Gimme life

 Just like you intended

 Its like to see you raise the day you ascended

Gimme dat fire

 Gimme dat flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

Gimme dat fire, flame

 Gimme dat fresh wind

 Gimme dat rain

 Gimme dat freedom

 You can have the chains

 Gimme dat God who can gimme all things

Yeah, this is just to let cats know

 Dont focus on what you cant have

 Get all you can have

 We call dat freedom

 Dats the joy of God

 And his poeple

 In his world

 On his terms

SHOUTOUT TO PASTOR E!

 Yeah

 Gimme dat, gimme dat, gimme dat

 I want it all, I want it all

 Gimme dat

 Its your boy Ambassador

Read more: Ambassador - Gimme Dat Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Ephesian Ghosts In Maryland, 2013

I can never have you can I? I CAN NEVER HAVE YOU CAN I???? Why did I meet you then? WHY DID I MEET YOU THEN? WHY DID I MEET YOU… JUST TO ACQUAINT MYSELF WITH THE DEATH OF ALL OUR POSSIBILITIES OF BEING TOGETHER? This scar will never heal.  I will always miss you, because you are forever gone, like a ghost….

*Saint Paul, pray for me

* dedicated to My Chemical Romance, The Ghost of You

http://youtu.be/uCUpvTMis-Y

http://pastormark.tv/2012/04/27/the-dig-on-ephesus

---------------/Ephesian Ghosts In Maryland, 2013

I met you as an Ephesian first, besotted and beholden,

like one looking for the Christ, hoping you would remedy

my heart’s discontent, the balm of your blue eyes.

My doubts, Pharisaical Jews, stalked and chased you initially

yet your charm steadfast, fearless, your pretty face a miracle

vis-à-vis a murderer knocked off his horse blind

yet three days later he inexplicably sees the world brand new

casting out demons of his former life, raising the dead.

There was no reason to run, no excuse to despise you

so I followed you wholeheartedly, disarmed, gullible

as you converted Gentiles of my cynical positions on love

(discourse in the temple of Artemis)

on Christian white girls genuinely liking me,

soul mates at a glance,  

into willing martyrs for an honorable cause: marrying you.

These three months like three years, laboring to smite,

serving, preaching to soften my soul,  

three months like three years of bliss…taken away.

But you are setting sail aren’t you? (Must you?)

Jerusalem is a celestial city for angelic girls like you,

girls your age. A place far distant from guys like me,

guys my age rotting in Ephesus.

My sighs will be the wind blowing on your mast

my tears the equivocating waves

that alternately push forward then pull you back.

My episodic grief, every time I view your Facebook page

it feels like weeping sore and falling on your neck,

because I know I will see your face no more.

[you are never coming home never coming home..]

------Acts 20:15-38

And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus. For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship

--The Ghost of You Lyrics

"The Ghost Of You"

I never said I'd lie and wait forever

If I died, we'd be together

I can't always just forget her

But she could try

At the end of the world

Or the last thing I see

You are

Never coming home

Never coming home

Could I? Should I?

And all the things that you never ever told me

And all the smiles that are never ever...

Ever...

Get the feeling that you're never

All alone and I remember now

At the top of my lungs in my arms she dies

She dies

At the end of the world

Or the last thing I see

You are

Never coming home

Never coming home

Could I? Should I?

And all the things that you never ever told me

And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me

Never coming home

Never coming home

Could I? Should I?

And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me

For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me

If I fall

If I fall (down)

At the end of the world

Or the last thing I see

You are

Never coming home

Never coming home

Never coming home

Never coming home

And all the things that you never ever told me

And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me

Never coming home

Never coming home

Could I? Should I?

And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me

For all the ghosts that are never gonna...

The Garden Of You and Me Not Together, Never Together (You Damned Sexy Girl of Perdition)

[How could you smile at me the other day? It felt like a burning kiss]
--------/The Garden

Those teeth of yours, like torches

(your chipper mood-

pretty little fingers dangerously close to charring wood.)

They lit up my dark night (of soul), molars like flames

of feminine passion stirring me from monotony

in the Garden of my loneliness praying away impending gloom.  

I know youre getting married soon,

7 inch thorns braided into a crown of mockery, blood pouring

as memories of us speaking to one another, blurred lines

of my heart’s sight await; Your wedding –

a macabre Roman style crucifixion of me being happy.   

But what is with the cruel swords and clubs ?

widespread social acceptance by our friends cutting,

a sudden savage stab, slit of blade,  

the blunt stoic delivery of this news to me barbaric,

bludgeoning my already bruised self-esteem.   

Dare you, then, kiss me with a smile?

You tell your friends Im just "Rabbi" to you

belying our intimacy with formality, your duplicative generic bud.  

DON’T THEY KNOW WE WERE FALLING IN LOVE

once…? That is, before you dated him.

But I wont resist this betrayal, vindictive scourge of the spurned,

I’ll just walk away “seized,” head held down and mute.

I’ll die for your sins,

these romantic fissures enlarging between us by day

nakedly vulnerable and shamed before those who knew me strong.

I am not of this world anymore,

returning to the celestial kingdom I used to have

where I can dream of kissing you for real

without the deceit.

------Mark 14:43-45

And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him.

Field Hockey Savior (Ascending into Clouds)

 So wait, you surmise that after falling (hard) for you, that Im just going to sit idly by as you waltz off into wedded bliss with another man? IS THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT??!!! DID YOU NOT KNOW THAT I WOULD BE MOROSE, WISTFUL???? All I can do now is stare into the clouds, wondering what I’ll do without the faint hope of the slim possibility of you coming back to me….the hope I had become so adjusted and well adapted to…

* Dedicated to Alesana, Heavy Hangs the Albatross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxEg_L4avfU ----> Clicketh that Linketh, yall-eth!!!

Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

--------/Field Hockey Savior (Ascending into Clouds)

Before I met you, this young brunette jocular cynic,

life was like fishing

on waters of romantic obscurity casting nets to no avail,

guided by stoicism familiar to me like a father,

the lead boat.  

You spoke life, encouraging me like your breath

into my lungs, a man of the depressing dust molded

into a disciple- by his God. Come and follow, taste and see

your charm like miracles, your hips incited my heart to walk on water

incisive feminine wit like five loaves and two fish multiplied

fed my appetite for meaning, vanquishing famished crowds

of ennui, my 14 years of singleness an emaciated hope.   

For a while, blissfully, we walked together.

(But deep inside I knew your virgin birth into my life,

replete with angels of my desire singing, would end in distress.)

When you told me you began dating him,

I know you saw the vexation in my eyes, a soul crushed

the news casting me behind you as Satan.

And now youre getting married, spikes in your hands

a crown of thorns on your head. Roman soldiers

of cruel and callous fate spitting, whipping and driving

a nail in your feet, killing you without breaking bones…

everything about this galling to me.

The fact that we cant be together is crucifixion.

Youre gone now,

ring on your finger like the tomb of a rich man,

body sealed with a stone from Joseph of Arimathea.

Disbelief, youre dead to me aren’t you?

Fighting back tears I stare blankly into the sky,

echoes of your voice, hallucinations of your smile

wishing you were still here.

------------Acts 1:4-12

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

Jennifer Lawrence You Are My (Sweet, Sweet) Canaan

--------------------/Canaan (Jennifer Lawrence, You Are My Canaan)

Jennifer, I would run from everything I have ever known

for you, in obscure darkness, in swirling mists of uncertainty

trampling through my fear of being alone

anxiety about being too old, doubts about you requiting my passion

like a crazed man stumbling over the bed of the sea,

frantic,

determined that whatever should stand between us

part ways like walls of water.

You see, Ive come to view life before you as slavery:

whips layered with stone lacerating my back

being unable to gaze at your blonde hair,

maggot infested bread the deprivation of your blue eyes,

your lips like the agonizing callous sun on scabbed skin,

if I cant kiss them. Sadly, I was contented in this,

cleaning my shackles, expecting wounds,

my heart decaying under depression and loneliness,

tyrannical rule of a soulless Pharoah. Voices of my oppressors,

girls who rejected me,

compassionless taskmasters with bloated national pride,

their feral laughing by day, echoes of affliction at night  

-cringing reminders of those who rejoice at my failings-.

My tears became my sin, rats became my friends,

brothers of degradation. But under the auspicious moon

(when I saw Hunger Games)

like Moses you came, behind you the angel of death.  

 But under the moon of my despair, like Moses you came,

(staff of confidence in your hand, charm in your smile,

panache in your demeanor)

behind you the angel of death,

of my dating-life dejection.

I likened you to a shooting star, a fleeting chance at fulfillment.

You, the sexiest movie star, placed in a basket at birth

nursed in the arms of Beauty, succored at the breasts of feminine regality.

Come, lets dart past the lies, the skepticism,

the detractors who wish me unmarried wailing over their disappointment

like the murder of their firstborn sons,

to the shores of new opportunity. I want you to look into my eyes Jennifer,

and say “follow me….be with me.”

When all is said and done, we will look back

at the chariots with envy clogged wheels, jealousy a legion of soldiers,

as completely pathetic and washed up

dead on the shores of our love

rotting by day.

(DATE ME JENNIFER, PLEEEEAAASSSEEE??? OH BABY OH BABY OH BABY!!!

EMAIL ME AT THEJESUSMETAPHOR@YAHOO.COM) 

-------------/Exodus 14:21—15:1

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,

and the LORD swept the sea

with a strong east wind throughout the night

and so turned it into dry land.

When the water was thus divided,

the children of Israel marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,

with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.

The Egyptians followed in pursuit;

all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and charioteers went after them

right into the midst of the sea.

In the night watch just before dawn

the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud

upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic;

and he so clogged their chariot wheels

that they could hardly drive.

With that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel,

because the LORD was fighting for them against the Egyptians.

Then the LORD told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea,

that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians,

upon their chariots and their charioteers.”

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,

and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth.

The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea,

when the LORD hurled them into its midst.

As the water flowed back,

it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh’s whole army

that had followed the children of Israel into the sea.

Not a single one of them escaped.

But the children of Israel had marched on dry land

through the midst of the sea,

with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.

Thus the LORD saved Israel on that day

from the power of the Egyptians.

When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore

and beheld the great power that the LORD

had shown against the Egyptians,

they feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD:

I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;

horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.