A short poem in response to Romans 7:14-25
Oh what lurks in the
Shadows of my heart,
Waiting for the moment
To tear me apart.
My spirit looks up
My flesh looks down,
I’ll raise my cup
But, to sin I’m bound.
I long to drink
The cup of righteousness,
But my flesh takes hold
The drug of darkness.
A new creation I have become
So why to wrong do I succumb?
Living well and right is
What I desire,
But my flesh calls out
And sets me afire.
Jekyll and Hyde
Are warring inside,
And rending the fabric of my soul.
Kill the one, Kill the other
My fighting, Twin brother.
And rending my fabric in the cold.
But I have been set free
And the powers that be
Have no control over me.
Letting the Spirit guide
Eliminates the pride
No power to cyanide
No condemnation
for those who are called,
His power has freed me
from the enemy of the fall.
Keith Carpenter - Scribblings of a Dreamer 