Distance Leads To Temptation

Lord, lead me not into temptation Away you, I'm not sure, teach me not This exercise in longing, I will forget Your verse of homelessness, as your son Illuminate the distance between me, and you Forgive me, your garden trespassed, don't Exile me out into forlorn space again Heaven and satellites are your art Here on my moon far from the sun, you Lead me to that lonesome capsule, back Where a stained spacesuit hides me, listen To the hissing suit sweet-talking me, I go Wearing that damned suit, pull down the visor To cover my face from your rays, head To my own sea of tranquility alone On the dark side of the moon, far From your reach, I’ll own my kingdom From your moondust, build a sand castle of sin On the rim of an unholy crater, I’ll declare Independence from your colonial rule I’ll put on this old suit of debauchery again Until you strip your prodigal child, attempting A break from orbit, telling me I have all I need For a moonshot closing the distance Deliver me from a solitary capsule, lifeless On the cold lunar surface, temptation lives Stay my evil hand that turns the airlock Watch me float out the hatch from afar, hiss Your gravity too heavy to bear, God, watch Me bounce to the dark side of the moon Though here comes the sun again, coax Me a sinner unbaptized by midnight Each revolution, you test my faith Turn not distance to despair, rather Instill the space between, patience Turn not my freedom to anarchy, but Faith in tethered orbits, closer Turn not my soul into a cancer, hungry Temptations eating a moon misled Thy will be undone away from you