Love of Christ

There's one thing I'll never understand

You looked upon me

Saw me festering in my lies

Wallowing in my lust

Burning with passion and worldly desires

My every thought filled with selfish fires

Willingly walking towards death

Choosing to walk with my eyes closed

The fire approaching

And You

The God of this Universe

The epitome of all that is good and worthy

Thought to yourself

After looking at the trainwreck that is me

And said, "I'll die for him"

I no longer need food

Nor do I need water

I need no happiness

I need no fulfillment

Nor do I need enjoyment

So come what may

There is naught but one thing I need

That I may have power

To comprehend

How wide and long and high and deep

Is the love of Christ

Author's Note

Feel free to criticize. Was written in a short amount of time and with a heavy heart.

Reviews

[Corwin T.]

The circumstances under which this was written seem to point to a pivotal and or emotional response from outside circumstances. I love the way you have worded this, and in fact, I think not rhyming everything together adds to the power and depth. It keeps the poem from being cheesy, and it really helps stir up the reader, especially myself. The wide depths of Christ's love is too great to fully ever comprehend, and that my friend, is what you did so well in capturing with a heavy heart, and a pen. Thanks for sharing!

[~*~Peace Keeper~*~]

Yes His love is great and at times hard to believe how much He does love us. I like how you wrote this one, describing our sinful nature and yet He still died for us because He loved us. It's good to know that someone loves us this much no matter what we have done. This was pretty good for a short amount of time it was written.

Good Job