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BAB3L by Efe Ogufere

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>2 Minute&comma; 29 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>4&period; And they said&comma; Go to&comma; let us build us a city and a tower&comma; whose top may reach unto heaven&semi; and let us make us a name&comma; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth&period;<br>&NewLine;5&period; And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower&comma; which the children of men builded&period;<br>&NewLine;6&period; And the Lord said&comma; Behold&comma; the people is one&comma; and they have all one language&semi; and this they begin to do&colon; and now nothing will be restrained from them&comma; which they have imagined to do&period;<br>&NewLine;7&period; Go to&comma; let us go down&comma; and there confound their language&comma; that they may not understand one another’s speech&period;<br>&NewLine;8&period; So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth&colon; and they left off to build the city&period;<br>&NewLine;9&period; Therefore is the name of it called Babel&semi; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth&colon; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Genesis 11&colon;4–9&lbrack;2&rsqb;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>I believe in God&period;&period;I do Good and I have Faith&period;<br>&NewLine;These are just random musings of a not so sober believer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fall of Man is mentioned&comma; everyone races to Eden<br>&NewLine;Beautiful garden with a godly view and scenery<br>&NewLine;The very first gift given to Man without reason<br>&NewLine;Watered with beauty&comma; the seeds of lust sprout to berries<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One forbidden bite it took&comma; from a lover to another<br>&NewLine;Man fell head first&comma; naked and holding on to dying leaves<br>&NewLine;Trees flinched at his touch&comma; the animals turn their backs<br>&NewLine;Rejected and clothed in shame&comma; Eden wept as he left<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blinded by the fall&comma; we forget Man did rise again<br>&NewLine;Proud and strong&comma; united with hearts that beat as one<br>&NewLine;Broke backs bent absent the whirl of whips&comma; a welcome pain<br>&NewLine;As they sort to build bridges of a dream and find a name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Only to fall yet again&comma; hopes and dreams turned to dust<br>&NewLine;Whose fault this time&comma; who takes the burden of blame&quest;<br>&NewLine;Is it a crime&comma; uniting in purpose&quest; Bubbles rise and burst<br>&NewLine;Now we hope for a dream we used to have&comma; World peace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What would we do with such luxury if offered on a platter&quest;<br>&NewLine;Every nation and tribe&comma; age and race&comma; a new united cluster&period;<br>&NewLine;Would Babel not rise again&comma; each with mortar and plaster&quest;<br>&NewLine;Aching backs bent to the whims and wills of a Tower&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I read once in a Grey script&comma; the creator loathes the dice<br>&NewLine;But how free is the will he freely bestowed on Man&quest;<br>&NewLine;Babel is whispered&comma; the defendant rises and yells&period; Pride<br>&NewLine;What is freewill if you cannot reach and touch the sky&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is it pride to dream unbound by chains of limitations&quest;<br>&NewLine;Or pride to lay stones in blood&comma; sweat and beating hearts&quest;<br>&NewLine;Babel found its voice when Man dared to stand as one<br>&NewLine;World Peace birthed Babel&comma; Babel birth forth Chaos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;theaventurine&period;files&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;20140928-134817-49697624&period;jpg" alt&equals;"20140928-134817-49697624&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy"><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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