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Date Posted: 11:58:55 04/19/05 Tue
Author: Chris
Subject: Poems of cult members
In reply to: Tony Lang 's message, "Terrorism" on 09:20:50 04/19/05 Tue

Poems are a great way to express your feelings and emotions. Sometimes you can't really do it in prose. Some cult members also try to deal with their experiences by writing poems.

James Kim, the former Toledo UBF leader, said in his testimony that he wrote many poems to cope with his UBF experience. He published one of them:

Disillusionment

Truth was betrayed
As it was conveyed.

Where is the true face,
As we see the fallen race?

Can hypocrisy be unveiled,
In a world counterfeit prevailed?

How long will injustice run its race,
In an arena gladiators garlanded with lace?

To heaven its reach delayed
As bravado of lone soldiers relayed.

Where is heavenly deliverance,
As clamors of the groaning exhausted forbearance.

Can the Morning Star break the night,
On earth confusion armors the knight?

How long will disillusionment run its course,
In a circuit a brave soldier gallops his horse?

Enlightenment will enliven the suppressed
As the Son of Righteousness free the oppressed.

The website icoc.de has also some poems by a woman who was a cult member (see here).

I'd like to read more poems of ex UBF members.

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