Frailty

How I wish to drink the wine of joy with you

feel the brush of fingertips upon my cheek

to spread a picnic feast within the wilderness

what lies within my heart to plainly speak

 

But raised was I upon a planets prison

and to will of others made was I a slave

with eyes cast to the floor and verbal beating

the road to fear of man did abuse pave

 

I want to run barefoot         on green grass carpets

and prowl                  the mountain ranges like a cat

wing my way                         upon the trails ridges

and know no violence will me to attack

 

Twelve times faced I death and yet I'm living

I've escaped intent        and accidents of chance

like those who consider all          unforeseen occurrence

that the unwary can be              caught by circumstance

 

I've made my way this far         only by reason

four reasons          gave the choice for me to live

I've had no time to consider                      my emotion

nor thought about a need         for love did give

 

I've given vent to mans neglect and violence

for no different do I find inself my own

when I look at the reflection in the mirror

no change to our past can we atone

 

All those who consider justice and affliction

the pathways of thought and all her tracks

many millennia's of history have we written

the investigation of the goodness mankind lacks

 

The ever present war              within our nature

affected by our fight          or flight of reason

the stake to posterity                 is high and costly

far to often we are weak     to logics treason

 

For all have fallen down       before true glory

not a single one hasn't failed               his own thought

for everyone has placed        for himself standards

and in his own failures                 is he caught

 

For in Justice , Love and Wisdom there is Power

in the cosmos is ordered laws           that we can see

but not one single human         who is existing

can keep the perfection    of Love flawlessly

 

So occasionally I will have to ask             for your forgiveness

and hope you love enough           to set me free

for even if I think           I might know better

I have found in all of us            this frailty

 

I want to tell you I am stronger               when you are near me

I have found in you something       that in myself I lack

I never knew that              getting any closer

would provide the desire            to return  back

 

Romans 7:7-25

 

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