Monday, December 31, 2012

Undecided


I don't want to write this poem
A thought on paper takes too much
But it's me writing   yes?
This energy channels through
Though I don't, I do
And the meaning slowly seeps out

What is my hand up to?
Doing that which I don't want to do
Strange, yet not inexplicable
Willingly, yet by no desire
The pencil marks
As my eyes grow tired

So meaning, should it be?
Or a purpose one can see?
Yes, to show one thing
That, really, my mind
Sometimes, likes to spring
Into I know not what

Perhaps, this is to reveal
Certain bursts within
A brain
Not constrained
Not always sane
With an aspect, of letting go

Friday, December 28, 2012

διάβολος


~~διάβολος~~
(the Devil) 

He prowls in the night
waiting, watching, seeking to devour
Walls once full of might
stand desolate for it is his hour

My foundation gone
yet in familiar land of old
I am like a pawn
made captive in his malicious fold

I cry "free me please!"
as he reignites former passion
and breaks my knees
in a cruel and furious fashion

But within my breast
a pillar of hope and truth still stands
It transcends the test
defying the vile work of his hands

"You have no power"
I say, pointing to the sky above
"Soon, you will cower
before the One who my soul does love"



The tides sure do turn when your hope is in Christ. We live in a world that assaults us in subtle ways, so we need to be extra cautious. Being captive is made to look fun and pleasurable; however we must come to the word of God and know the truth, and it will illumine all sins and temptations for what they really are.