Sunday, August 21, 2005

Persuit of Pleasure

Jesus - Look at me

I'm a pathetic idiot

Caught up in trying

To feel good

Hoping something right

Comes from something wrong

Father God - I'm sorry

I've heard Your voice of Wisdom

And chosen my comfort

Over Your Joy

My small victories

Over your Peace

My control

Over your

Love and Forgiveness

Jesus - I love You and

I know You Love me because

You are still with me

Because You continue

To want the best

For me

Father - For some reason

I'm still alive

Although many questions

Can be conceived

That fact remains

I am bored and frustrated

Purposeless

In all my experience

I live a life of good deeds

Championing the underdog

Fighting the good fight

To what end?

Father - I want to die

To leave the cesspool of

Shallow desires

Cover-ups for pain

Trying to feel good

Moment to moment

But I'm still alive

The dream - nightmare

Won't end

Jesus - Help me stop

Stumbling from

Circumstances to circumstance

Noodle on noodle

Until my path resembles

A bowl of spaghetti

Father - Thank you for Forgiveness

You made the Way

For me to begin again

I don't care about

Forgiving myself

Tired excuses for

Wrong choices is

What's got me

In this mess

I do care that

You Forgive me and

Separate my past

From my present

And future

In Your heart

- And I know You do because

I know you Care for me

Jesus - I remember how You've

Treated me

Always Loving and Gracious

Kind and Truthful

Jesus - You are my Friend

Close to me

Even now

Even now

Jesus - I am ready

For your simplicity

And You said:

Love God with my whole being

Love my neighbor as myself

And My Command is:

Love one another... Giving, Sacrificial – Love.

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