If killing wasn’t a sin
I could finally win
I could stop living without disobeying God
Something that grows within me, it’s odd
If killing wasn’t a sin
I would slit my throat
Sending all the letters I wrote
Is there anyone who would mourn me ?
Will you, my dear ?
If killing wasn’t a sin
I would jump off a cliff
Right after one of our tiff
Just to make you regret
Just to make you fret and never forget
If killing wasn’t a sin
And I killed myself tonight
Will it be your plight ?
Will you realize that I was worth the fight ?
But killing is a sin
So I would never commit it
Despite everything, I’ll be nowhere in sight
Because your toxicity isn’t worth my time
Hello Lord! It's your child Ken.
I've slipped back into bad habits again.
I know that they aren't good for me.
I ask again for grace to set me free.
You've done this many times before.
Each time your word, I chose to ignore.
Whenever I fail to keep it in sight.
That's when I stop doing things that are right.
The moment I commit these spiritual crimes.
Guilt and shame just flood my mind.
These two alarms only prove what's true.
There's nothing good in disobeying you.
So about my behavior, I Lord repent.
Forgive me for these recent events.
You say even if I sin everyday.
We are to repent and not just walk away.
Then wait for you to do your part.
Of restoring peace back to our hearts.
So glad there is no wrong we can do.
That we can't be forgiven by you.
Except of course the unforgiveable sin.
Of refusing to allow the Holy Spirit in.
Lord please forgive old hard head Ken.
I rely on your grace until life here ends.
What drives
the human heart
to chase and grasp
at fleeting high
living lives of shallow praise?
It’s a shame
the lies they tell
to carve a path
cheating to fill the void
disobeying to master a craft.
But when the day is done
and their name is called
they leave empty-handed
weighed down by thoughts
with not even a car
to keep them company
on the long, lonely road away.
The first independent woman
created by God from dust,
and placed in the Garden of Eden,
turned into a hot fiery female of fantasy.
The first wife of Adam,
she got banished from Eden
for disobeying his masculine domination.
In revenge the instinctive incarnation of lust
morphed into a night monster
for men to be spitefully allured, led astray,
and a child-killing witch,
strangling helpless neonates
with her enchanting golden hair.
The primordial fiend of serpentine seduction,
the first cohabiter of man,
Lilith, epitomized untamed power image,
embodying the forceful female archetype
of malevolent rebellion, evil empowerment,
and potent pursuit of feminine freedom.
A stiffly worded instruction
That should commence with a ruction,
Opening fire; next action,
Lifeless Bodies sole attraction...
But then what of Reconstruction?
Easier to crush than to rebuild
Either as one man or a guild;
Often tough to achieve a Peace Talk
When you've had a real long bad walk
From my lips A loud "Correct Sir!"
But I was shaken down to my fur…
From there straight to Repented's Church
I'll be there waiting for their search!
They'll me pick up plus my letter:
A Resignation's not later...
Disobeying military order:
Pure risk but could be in order.
There is a higher being
one that chooses to speak the truth through us
To not believe is a grave disobedience parallel to disobeying the word
in the new covenant the circle is complete
You must take this wound and cover it for what it's worth
as part of the whole body inflicted and injured
because healing comes from the charity forgiving praying
For those poor blind souls lost to the world
they need to rise above their human weaknesses
in the end it boils down too whom do you serve
I felt the blade enter cutting deeper than the bone
The lies need to be stopped and exposed
at what table would a character sit
one side supports division by ruthless measures
the other peace and unity
There is a sadness about betrayal it never comes from our enemies
this bar is set high because what is rotten corrupts the very fruit with poisonous lies
the apple will always fall for the temptations as gravity pulls
against the force the window of the soul reflects how the heart operates
Passengers on planes who balk
At following the rules
Should not be seen as harmless,
Merely acting out like fools.
For disobeying mandates,
Flying trapped up in the air,
Is a risky proposition,
Which to seatmates is unfair.
A threat to flight attendants,
Fellow passengers or crew
Should make flying, for the perpetrators,
Totally taboo.
Arresting those offenders
Who cause on-board stress and strife
Isn’t punishment enough – they should
Be cuffed, then banned for life.
Consider the testimonies of God
what a joy they are to keep
reminding one's self what a privilege
to dive into His word so very deep
Its depth isn't that very difficult
for He's promised all He'll explain
at the right time by His spirit
such blessings pouring down like rain
God's word is always full of light
only one word describes it, wonderful
such a longing down in the heart
pity those dangers for being a fool
O Lord turn and be so gracious
upon those that love your name
keep me in your full redemption
your precepts are my living flame
Shine your face upon your own
your statutes help me to obey
I grieve for those disobeying your law
may they turn yet leaning to pray
(This is my " Psalm 119 project" which I began to write a couple of years ago, so this is the seventeenth poem of twenty-two poems I've written over that time to cover all of Psalm 119.)
A frightened boy, I felt an ache inside
for not liking girls as other boys did.
And I still remember the nights I cried;
for feeling feelings, that the Lord forbid.
Consumed by a relentless ache, I hid
my feelings, for they left me petrified.
And I wasn't brave like a normal kid;
a frightened boy, I felt an ache inside.
Fate had stripped my fragile ego of pride:
my inner self was kept under a lid.
And I felt ostracized and pushed aside,
for not liking girls as other boys did.
I gravely feared disobeying God's bid
and often ran into the woods to hide.
But facing a slippery slope, I slid,
and I still remember the nights I cried.
I'd contemplate committing suicide
when I was alone, somewhere off the grid.
And within my soul, this ache amplified;
feeling the feelings, that the Lord forbid.
I dreamt of privateers like Captain Kidd:
yet, in sports, no team picked me for their side;
I felt the world hated me as a kid.
And when no one cared if I lived or died,
I felt an ache inside.
"For we know that all the rest of creation,
(all) have been groaning with the pains of childbirth
up to the present time." World dissipation.
Nature has experienced a hell on earth.
Since the fall of mankind, accurs'd is the ground
thorns and thistles it has delivered and dearth.
Eve's arrogance, disobeying God's profound
mandate not to eat of the forbidden tree.
The scheming of Satan had left her spellbound.
Adam ignored his responsibility,
learning quickly as he acquired the challenge
that "good and evil" meant loss of liberty.
Planet Earth became mankind's lifelong college
abused by a ravenous thirst for knowledge.
February 18, 2021
contest: While Mother Earth Gently Moans
sponsor: D.W. Rodgers
The first stanza is largely a quote from Romans 8:22. (NIV)
I also used information found in Genesis chapter 3, throughout.
opening sinner
disobeying God's Commands
in sin forgiven
in sin I have been
God has now forgiven me
a once sinful man
11/30/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019, 2020
Unity first is a high command
But it’s now in big demand
Breaking peace into many pieces
In search of money going to ashes
People to people in separation like banks not as bridges
God sometimes getting anger like Men
At disobeying even his single command
God
Needs not the same Men for ever
But only his faithful follower
He reduced some people to ashes
To produce new ones in many cases
The Men here today God may say go
New some may come as per his law
Unity first is God’s command
But it’s in now big demand
No unity means distancing
Saying like God is wrong being advancing
Now here come not God but his punishments
First of all he,God distanced from Men
Next to make Men from each other distancing
See today all Men with each other going distance
As God did from Men as sentences
This Men soon to do their corrections
Unite and get close as a symbol of social togetherness!
I was told never to climb
I never was one to follow rules
I climb a fence and fell
I broke my arm and didn’t tell
A week went by I could no longer stand it
I told my father I was chased by birds
I told him that I had fell
The fear of him was so strong
That the pain in my arm was nothing
To the fear of disobeying him
Many years later he died from a trailer fire
I did not shed one tear
There are only two masters
Every thought, word and deed
Obeys the one by disobeying the other.
Praise the Ruler of nations!
God is mightier than anybody:
they try to defeat His army,
but can they win against angels?
Even Jesus, the shining sun,
defied death and amazed many:
the massive stone rolled away...
He was no longer mocked by men!
Praise the Ruler of nations!
Proclaim His name from every corner,
and although He's invisible, He's near...
whenever we're afflicted by wretchedness!
Had God not sent Jesus to save us indeed,
we wouldn't have any hope for happiness;
had God's love not been so grandly revealed:
we would be living a life of total wretchedness!
Praise the Ruler of nations!
He'll inflict misery on the ones disobeying Him;
He'll fill the endless skies with brimstone and fire!
Hail to the Ruler of nations!
Unquestionable is the foolishness of Kim,
but his desire for conquest will end in dire!
Copyright ( c ) 2017 by Andrew Crisci
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